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I know this will delete everything in a subdirectory and below it:
rm -rf <subdir-name> But how do you delete everything in the current directory as well as every subdirectory below it and the contents of all of those subdirectories?
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Just typing rm <directory name> just leads to number of sub questions in which each of the sub directory must be removed manually. But, rm -rf helps in removing the whole directory along with its sub directories at once.
Practice safe computing. Simply go up one level in the hierarchy and don't use a wildcard expression:
cd ..; rm -rf -- <dir-to-remove> The two dashes -- tell rm that <dir-to-remove> is not a command-line option, even when it begins with a dash.
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