Re: How delete a not empty directory in the Dired buffer?

[Christian Lynbech <christian.lynbech@ericsson.com>]

>>>>> "Giannandrea" == Giannandrea Castaldi <g.castal@tiscali.it> writes:

Giannandrea> ... is a way in the Dired buffer to delete not empty dir?

The simplest is to use `!' which allows you to execute a command on
the file/directory which is pointed out by the cursor. That command
could be "rm -rf" which will remove the directory and all of its
contents.

In other words, you would place the cursor on the line with the
directory you want to delete and the press:

        ! rm -rf <return>

Beware though that "rm -rf" is not a very safe command so be sure you
are pointing to the correct file or directory!


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