Subject: Deleting entire subdirectories

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 Q: I need to delete a directory which has files (and perhaps
subdirectories) in it. How can I delete without having to go trough
them individually.

 A: It can be done, but note that if you are not VERY CAREFUL you
may inadvertently do much harm to your files by deleting more than
you intended!
   There is a utility by Norm Patriquin /pc/dirutil/pdel44.zip,
which can be used to delete non-empty directories. Another utility,
which is handy for many other purposes as well, is sweep.com with
the /pc/pcmagvol collections.
   Other utilities which you can use for this purpose include
TDEL.EXE from ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutle22.zip, and
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/deldir11.zip. I use TDEL.EXE myself
a lot.
   One frequent solution is using the Unix like rm command for
MS-DOS. Different renditions of rm can are common in the collections
in our /pc/unix directory.
   If you blunder, and delete more files that you intended, then
undelete utilities like the one in PcTools or MS-DOS 5.0 (and later)
can save you. (The usual disclaimer applies).
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