SUMMARY: How to recursively remove *deep* directory tree ?

From: Andy McClements (a.mcclements@linst.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 22 1999 - 10:54:12 CDT

Thanks to all those who responded (approx. 20 !)

The favourite method by far was to do something like:

cd into top of tree, and:

# find . -type d -depth -exec rmdir {} \;

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