remove directory contents

[Ron Irving]

Good morning gents, (and ladies.)

How do I remove the contents of a directory without removing the directory itself?

eg,

rm -r /ron/*?

I don't think that's correct.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

rm -rf /ron/

That will do it. Directory and all contents.

SEP

[Jozef_Novak · Accepted solution]

Hi Ron,

That is correct :-)

J.

[Pete Randall]

It may look odd, Ron, but that's the way to do it and still leave the directory itself.


Pete

[Ganesan R]

Goto the directory and use rm -r

# cd
#rm -r *

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you do:

# rm -rf /dir

...you remove the contents AND the directory.

To remove the contents but keep the top directory, do:

# find /dir ! -path /dir -exec rm -rf {} +

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ron Irving]

thank you for all your quick reponses...thread closed.