mdeltree (1) - Linux Manuals

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mdeltree - recursively delete an MSDOS directory and its contents

Note of warning

This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the end of this man page for details.

Description

The mdeltree command is used to delete an MS-DOS file. Its syntax is:

mdeltree [-v] msdosdirectory [msdosdirectories...]

 

Mdeltree removes a directory and all the files and subdirectories it contains from an MS-DOS file system. An error occurs if the directory to be removed does not exist.

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    ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi

 

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To generate a html copy, run:
 

    ./configure; make html

  A premade html can be found at ∞http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/manual/mtools.htmlIntegral

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To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run:
 

    ./configure; make info

 

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