deleting files

Devin Carraway aqua at atlantic.devin.com
Wed Dec 8 22:50:01 PST 1999


On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:22:34PM -0800, mitch utsey wrote:
> did you try rm -r?

	-r is recursive deletion.  It has no effect on file deletions.
Perhaps you meant -f?

> are you set for noclobber?

	noclobber is in the shell, for the redirection operators.


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