VERY BASIC unix command help....
 

Hey,

Im trying to nuke a bunch of directories that have subdirs, pics, files etc. Im using the command rm -r <directoryname>. However i get a prompt for each file within these dirs im trying to delete.

Is there a way to nuke these directories / subdirs / files without having to confirm each file?

Thanks!

PS - i know.... newb question so flame at will

that's probably cuz you dont have root privileges for those, login as root and then do rm -r and he won't ask you anything. if you can't login as root, this is not possible unfortunately and you gotta do one by one...

rm -r -a <dirname> from a rusty old memory

L$

rm -Rf <dir>

maybe rm -rf

broke said it hehe

Thats true - its a managed box at nat net....so no root... ugg. Is there a work around?

Get nat net to change permissions on the directorys you want to kill then rm -rf

will do... thanks eveyone for the help. Saves a bunch of time :thumbsup

You don't need natnet for this.
Since you don't get permission denied when deleting one file at a time its not a permission thing, you can just rm -fr dir