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Re: [SLE] deleting files (basic)
- From: Christopher Mahmood <ckm@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:32:35 -0800
- Message-id: <20020205183235.GM23570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Tom Kostiainen (tom.kostiainen@xxxxxxxxxx) [020205 10:20]:
> Just a basic question. How do I delete multiple files in Linux.
> rm *.* didn't want to delete all the files (not at least those that wore
> "hiiden" .xxxx like). I had to feed one file at the time to get them deleted.
Your shell isn't globbing the dot-files...either set GLOBIGNORE or
just
rm $(ls -al)
--
-ckm
> Just a basic question. How do I delete multiple files in Linux.
> rm *.* didn't want to delete all the files (not at least those that wore
> "hiiden" .xxxx like). I had to feed one file at the time to get them deleted.
Your shell isn't globbing the dot-files...either set GLOBIGNORE or
just
rm $(ls -al)
--
-ckm
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