need help for SCO Xenix Sys V 286. ver 2.1.3
Jim O'Connor
jim at tiamat.fsc.com
Tue May 2 01:12:26 AEST 1989
In article <23770 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ked at garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
> In article <1689 at wasatch.utah.edu> ch-tkr at wasatch.utah.edu (Timothy K Reynolds) writes:
>
> >My Problem: we are removing some old users from the system. But we can't
> >clean their directories due to some odd files which still exist. The files
> >apparently have non-ascii characters in them (as determined by "ls > tmp"
> >and trying to edit tmp in vi.
>
> One way is to pipe the output of find into a simple program that unlinks
> files as in
Also, if you want to get rid of the entire directory any, as "root" do
# rm -rf directory_name
This will get rid of all files in the driectory, plus the directory itself,
regardless of what the files in the directory are named.
Good luck.
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James B. O'Connor jim at tiamat.fsc.com
Filtration Sciences Corporation 615/821-4022 x. 651
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