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<DIV><FONT size=2>I have several subdiretories in a tree that need to be
deleted. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Because of the number of files/directories I don't
want</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>to delete individually if possible.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Example:</FONT></DIV>
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/tmp</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
/dirA
/dirB</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
/dirB1
/dirB2 ...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I want to delete all of branch /tmp/dirB.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I am running RedHat 7.3 and have tried</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /tmp/dirB</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The response is to accept the command, returning</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>to the command prompt without error but non of
the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>directories are deleted.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Am I misunderstanding that it is possible to
delete</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>non-empty directories? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Gary Threlkeld</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><A
href="mailto:gthrelk@attbi.com">gthrelk@attbi.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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