[Gambas-user] cleaning gambas.1000 dir

T Lee Davidson t.lee.davidson at gmail.com
Mon Nov 20 02:41:17 CET 2023


On 11/19/23 20:25, Admin wrote:
> By the way, why exec rm instead of kill?
> I mean, I also use shell rm instead of kill due to some gut feeling, don't know why.

KILL can only remove a file; not a directory. And, btw, RMDIR can remove a directory, but only if it is empty.

`rm -rf` will remove files and directories recursively, empty or not.


-- 
Lee



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