[p4] How do I obliterate a whole directory tree?

rajkumarmd3@yahoo.co.in rajkumarmd3 at yahoo.co.in
Wed Aug 9 04:33:09 PDT 2006


On 8/9/06, Paul Goffin <Paul.Goffin at aepnetworks.com> wrote:
> 'P4 speak' for "and all below" is
>
> "..."
>
> Hence:
>
> "p4 obliterate dir\..." will do what you want.
>
> Paul.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: P4 User [mailto:p4user at gmail.com]
> Sent: 09 August 2006 00:43
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] How do I obliterate a whole directory tree?
>
>
> I was trying to obliterate a directory.  The command "obliterate dir\*"
> didn't work, nor did "obliterate dir\*\*", etc.  Turns out you have to
> obliterate each branch of the directory that contains files with a
> series of commands like "obliterate dir\*\*\*\*\*\*\*.*", followed by
> "obliterate dir\*\*\*\*\*\*.*", followed by "obliterate
> dir\*\*\*\*\*\*.*", etc. Basically go out to the furthest level of the
> directory tree and obliterate, level by level, backwards, until all the
> files are gone.
>
> Surely I'm missing something.  How do I obliterate an entire directory
> tree with one command? _______________________________________________
> perforce-user mailing list  -  perforce-user at perforce.com
> http://maillist.perforce.com/mailman/listinfo/perforce-user
>
> _______________________________________________
> perforce-user mailing list  -  perforce-user at perforce.com
> http://maillist.perforce.com/mailman/listinfo/perforce-user
>


More information about the perforce-user mailing list