How do you erase Dir in root I have over three hundred to do

ewc111 · 12-12-2011, 07:57 PM

I have over three hundred directories in root that needs to be erased How do you do this in quantity ?

corp769 · 12-12-2011, 08:04 PM

Could I ask why you stored this many directories under root? And to make it easier, you could run your file manager as root, and do it like so. Also, from the command line, if many directories start with the same first few characters, you could use wildcards. Using the interactive argument with rm could be an option too.

coolsg5636 · 12-12-2011, 08:33 PM

Hi,

You can use following command if your directory listing is like dir0,1,2....

#rm -rf dir*

ewc111 · 12-13-2011, 12:05 AM

To answer your question I used photorec in order recoup some lost files. It worked and they where recouped in root. Follow up question how do you enter a file manager in root?

linuxmen · 12-13-2011, 12:17 AM

Always double check bafore using "rm -rf" command....

fukawi1 · 12-13-2011, 12:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ewc111

To answer your question I used photorec in order recoup some lost files. It worked and they where recouped in root. Follow up question how do you enter a file manager in root?

If you are using Ubuntu on this machine, and if I am correct that Ubuntu uses nautilus

Code:

sudo nautilus

Will open nautilus up with root privileges. Allowing you to delete the directories as you normally would with nautilus.