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recursively deleting files/directories
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1991 12:56 PDT
From: drstrip@cs.sandia.gov (David R. Strip)
Now that I'm finally getting around to loading the 8.1 sources, etc,
I want/need to delete the 8.0 sources. If I do
Delete File >rel8>**>*.*.* :expunge yes
I get rid of all the files, but not the directories. Of course,
if you repeat this n times, where n is the max depth of the
directory tree you can clean out everything, but I keep thinking
there must be a magical incantation to do the job right in the
first place. I looked around the docs, but can't find anything
that appears to be the right thing. Of course, I might be looking
in the wrong place. Thanks.
Strip
You want Delete Directory. It gets rid of everything inferior to the
directory you supply it. This is documented in the Site Operations
manual (in the same section as Delete File).