Remove Directory

[msimoens]

I want to remove a directory in my /opt directory but I need sudo rights. To do it in Konsol, I'd use sudo rmdir /opt/whatever but the directory isn't empty and I'm not going to go through and delete every file and directory under it. How can I recursively remove this directory?

[dibl]

Re: Remove Directory

Being pretty GUI-centric, I would do Alt-F2,

kdesu konqueror

and start sending things to trash.

[Fenyx]

Re: Remove Directory

A powerful but dangerous command. Use with extreme caution:

sudo rm -r directory

The -r option is recursive, it will go through all files and folders no matter how deep they are.

Be extremely careful with what directory you target. targetting the wrong one can have very adverse consequences.

[disturbedite]

Re: Remove Directory

yeah, even more dangerous:

sudo rm -rf

extreme caution