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Hi Folks,

I have a directory in unix that is /usr/local/pos contain the folowing directoreis ..that is

dir1
dir2
dir3

now I want to delete only dir2 please advise how to remove the directory dir 2 ..that is rm command and how to use it , and second if I want to zip the dir3 please advise how to zip it.Smilie
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Old 09-09-2013
To understand how to use commands, your first port of call should always be to the man pages. These are two rather trivial questions that can be easily answered there.
 
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