I agree, this is the norm in a lot of linux systems today. What you could also do is unalias rm rm -rf /u04/db_files/directory_to_be_removed Mike Newman, Christopher wrote:
I think the key is "without having to respond yes repeatedly". Means he's got something set up to rm -i in the shell environment. So two ways: 1) \rm -rf /directory 2) alias rm=rm, then rm -rf /directory From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frits Hoogland Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:54 AM To: cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Removing downloaded Oracle software rm -rf /u04/db_files/directory_to_be_removed frits On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, J. Dex <cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I am nervous about doing this since it is Linux versus other OS. What is the correct command to use to remove a directory and all of the files that fall under that directory without receiving questions back about whether or not want to remove various files within the that directory? In other words, using the example below, I want to remove the "directory_to_be_removed" including any files that are in it without having to respond yes repeatedly? The directory being removed is actually downloaded Oracle software from CD (but not the location where the install of the software itself is actually located at)./u04/db_files/directory_to_be_removed ________________________________________Hotmail® goes with you. Get it on your BlackBerry or iPhone. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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