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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to delete nonempty directory? Post 35737 by lairc on Thursday 1st of May 2003 02:13:25 PM
Old 05-01-2003
I'd suggest using rm -r ./yourdir from one dir level higher just so you're sure that deleting the correct directory. rm -r isn't very forgiving.

If you don't want it to ask you for confirmations you can use rm -rf ./yourdir.
 

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JMKMF(1)						      General Commands Manual							  JMKMF(1)

NAME
jmkmf - runs jmake with the correct options SYNOPSIS
jmkmf [ top-level dir [ current dir ] ] DESCRIPTION
Jmkmf is a wrapper which calls jmake with the correct options, defining the symbols TOPDIR (location of the top-level directory) and CURDIR (current directory). The generated Makefile.SH is then ran through /bin/sh to produce a Makefile. Jmkmf is useful when you generate a makefile for the first time. When ran without arguments, jmkmf will scan the directories upwards, looking for a .package file marking the top of your sources. It will then derive the top-level directory and the name of the current directory by itself. Once you have a Makefile.SH generated by jmake, and have run Configure already, you can use make Makefile.SH to build the Makefile.SH again and make Makefile to run the Makefile.SH through /bin/sh. To use the recursive commands, you have to append an 's' at the end of the name as in make Makefiles.SH and make Makefiles. AUTHOR
Raphael Manfredi <ram@hptnos02.grenoble.hp.com> FILES
Jmakefile High level description of makefile The file marking the top of your package tree SEE ALSO
jmake(1), packinit(1). ram JMKMF(1)
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