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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to delete/remove directory in fastest way Post 101337 by matrixmadhan on Tuesday 7th of March 2006 09:33:21 AM
Old 03-07-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by vino
Your rm could be alias'ed. Try this.

unalias rm
rm -rf /dir/to/delete
aliasing could have been done, for some purpose
i dont think unaliasing and using the command as a valid one.

instead use,
/bin/rm -rf /dir/to/delete
or
/usr/bin/rm -rf /dir/to/delete

aliasing would be preserved.
 

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Arch::SharedCache(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    Arch::SharedCache(3pm)

NAME
Arch::SharedCache - a synchronized data structure (map) for IPC SYNOPSIS
use Arch::SharedCache; my $cache = Arch::SharedCache->new( dir => '/tmp/dir-listings', max_size => 100, expiration => 600, # 10 minutes ); sub ls_long { scalar `ls -l $_[0]` } my $user_dir = '/usr/share'; $cache->store($user_dir => ls_long($user_dir)); $cache->fetch_store(sub { ls_long($_[0]) }, qw(/tmp /bin /usr/share)); printf "Cached listing of $user_dir: %s", $cache->fetch($user_dir); $cache->delete($user_dir); # examine /tmp/dir-listings/ after running this script # see also synopsys of Arch::SharedIndex DESCRIPTION
Arch::SharedCache provides an Arch::SharedIndex implementation using a single file per value. METHODS
The following methods are available: new. Other methods are documented in Arch::SharedIndex. new options Create a new Arch::SharedCache object. options is a hash of options. dir The cache directory used to store data. Will be created if it doesn't exist. index_file Name of the index file for the cache. Defaults to "dir/.index". BUGS
Awaiting for your reports. AUTHORS
Mikhael Goikhman (migo@homemail.com--Perl-GPL/arch-perl--devel). Enno Cramer (uebergeek@web.de--2003/arch-perl--devel). SEE ALSO
For more information, see Arch::SharedIndex. perl v5.10.1 2005-09-17 Arch::SharedCache(3pm)
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