need help for SCO Xenix Sys V 286. ver 2.1.3

[Jim O'Connor]

In article <23770 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ked at garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
> In article <1689 at wasatch.utah.edu> ch-tkr at wasatch.utah.edu (Timothy K Reynolds) writes:
> 
> >My Problem:  we are removing some old users from the system.  But we can't
> >clean their directories due to some odd files which still exist.  The files
> >apparently have non-ascii characters in them (as determined by "ls > tmp"
> >and trying to edit tmp in vi.
> 
> One way is to pipe the output of find into a simple program that unlinks
> files as in

Also, if you want to get rid of the entire directory any, as "root" do

# rm -rf directory_name

This will get rid of all files in the driectory, plus the directory itself,
regardless of what the files in the directory are named.

Good luck.
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James B. O'Connor			jim at tiamat.fsc.com
Filtration Sciences Corporation		615/821-4022 x. 651

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