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I am trying to remove a folder on my desktop thats permissions are root and i cant delete themeself, it has i do not have the permission, however its going to take forever to delete the files manually by rm -, and then rmdir... there are a lot of files inthis folder... is there a way to delete the whole folder even though there are files and folders inside? or is it easier to log in as root at startup...however i dont know how to do that.. i am using ubuntu 5.04 with kde
You could always use "man rm" to look at the manual for that command and it shows all of the options for that command the "-rf" are options that allowed you to remove the entire directory. and if you ever need root privliges type sudo before the command
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