Rm: Cannot Remove Directory

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Lonlyone

Sat Jan 30, 2010

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hi, i need some help

im a newby in linux i send this command to delete a script in my files:

rm /var/www/mywebs/web1/OSWallpaper_beta-1-5

im trying to delete the OSWallpaper_beta-1-5 but it gives me error message

rm: cannot remove directory /var/www/mywebs/web1/OSWallpaper_beta-1-5

what can i do to solve this?

webune

Sat Jan 30, 2010

you should put the -rf option

rm -rf /var/www/mywebs/web1/OSWallpaper_beta-1-5

r = --recursive (remove directories and their contents recursively)

-f, --force (ignore nonexistent files, never prompt. so it wont ask you to delete each file one by one)

hope that helps

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