[Tutor] How do I recursively remove the contents of a directory??

[w chun]

On 10/20/05, Suri Chitti <SChitti at manh.com> wrote:
>
> If I have a directory /u01/qa/logs and the logs has a number of children
> directories and I want to remove everything in logs and logs itself, is
> there a single method or command to do that?  I want to avoid recursively
> removing the files in each child directory and so on.


i'd try /bin/rm -rf /u01/qa/logs from the shell.  if you have to do it
programmatically, you can use os.system() with that cmd.

hope this helps!
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