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  Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 1
Subject:   deleting large numbers of files
Date:   2003-06-03 15:48:58
From:   anonymous2
Response to: deleting large numbers of files

I have had success with "rm -rf" for many "untrashable" files.Open terminal


sudo rm -rf


Leave the cursor one space from end of -rf .Then drag the folder containing the files onto the terminal window and it will automatically enter path. The cool thing is the -rf modifier will recursively delete all the files and folders!

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