03-18-2002
If you are using UNIX then this should work to delete EVERYTHING below the directory you put in place of mydir (as long as you own it or you are root). It will also delete ./mydir.
$ rm -r ./mydir
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lrztar
LRZTAR.1(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation LRZTAR.1(1)
NAME
lrztar - Directory wrapper for lrzip
SYNOPSIS
lrztar [options] DIRECTORY
lrztar -d [options] DIRECTORY.tar.lrz
lrzuntar [options] DIRECTORY.tar.lrz
DESCRIPTION
lrztar is a wrapper for compressing and decompressing whole directories with lrzip(1) to corresponding file "DIRECTORY.tar.lrz". lrzuntar
is identical to "lrztar -d". lrztar takes the same options as lrzip.
OPTIONS
See lrzip(1).
ENVIRONMENT
None.
FILES
None.
SEE ALSO
lrzip.conf(5), lrzuntar(1), lrzip(1), lrunzip(1), lrzcat(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), lzop(1), rzip(1), zip(1)
AUTHORS
Program was written by Con Kolivas.
This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL version 2 or
(at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.
perl v5.14.2 2012-02-08 LRZTAR.1(1)