> nemesis<nam### [at] gmailcom>  wrote:
>> there actually is rmdir in Unix too.  And rm dir will only work with the -r
>> recursive switch.  Unless you simply use rmdir dir, that deletes dir and all.
>
>    Actually rmdir will remove a directory only if it's empty.
>

Way back to the DOS era, you had deltree that would suppress a directory 
and all it's content including any sub-directory.
I think, not sure, that it could be used without a following directory 
name, and would suppress the content of the current directory... Prety 
dangerous if isued from the root.

Also, in DOS, rd dir suppressed a given directory.



Alain

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