Dusty Reagan » SSH http://dustyreagan.com On Technology & Entrepreneurship Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:17:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to delete an entire directory via SSH http://dustyreagan.com/how-to-delete-an-entire-directory-via-ssh/ http://dustyreagan.com/how-to-delete-an-entire-directory-via-ssh/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:30:11 +0000 Dusty Reagan http://dustyreagan.com/how-to-delete-an-entire-directory-via-ssh/ Continue reading →]]> I know this is probably common knowledge to Linux and Unix geeks. But every time I need to remove a directory with files in my NearlyFreeSpeech.Net SSH terminal I end up having to google for the command. So here it is for anyone else who’s out there googling!

rm -r -f YourDirectory

rm = remove / delete
-r = recursively deletes the directory and all files in it, including subdirectories
-f = will not ask for confirmation before deleting

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