From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:11:36 +1100, Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:   
   >   
   > In Linux (as root), I seem to be issuing lots of rm *.*'s and hitting   
   > "Y" heaps with the occasional rd (directory). Back in DOS or Win3/95/98,   
   > I'd probably have just entered something like "Del *.*" and "job done".   
   >   
   > Is there something like this for Linux??   
      
   Two command line methods follow:   
      
   1    /bin/rm -r whatever_you_did_before   
   2    \rm -r whatever_you_did_before   
      
   Reason you have the problem, run the following command:   
        type rm   
   and run this command   
        man rm   
      
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