How do I remove nonempty directories automatically

Hi. Back in my DR-DOS days, I had a utility called DELDIR available which could be used thus: DELDIR mydir After answering 'Y' to its query, it would proceeed to descend into that directory (as deeply as needed) and remove all files, then the directory itself. Surely Linux has something equivalent, I thought.

Well, no luck. The problem is I am collecting a bunch of directorires in ~-tmp of the form: "keyring-12346" where the digits 1-6 seem to be random alphanumerics.

I want get rid of all these from my .bashlogout file when I log out.

So far this does not work, hints or outright "do it thus" appreciated.

* here's the function I'm working on*cleantmp() { cd ~ * do I need a semi-colon here ? * DIRS=`ls tmp` for D in $DIRS cd $D * what about all these? * rm -f * cd .. rmdir $D ; }

I don't know the right syntax and the man page just says for NAME in WORDS do COMMANDS;

without giving any examples asto what NAME could look like and whether commands should be separated by semi-colons or back-slashes between them, etc. So my experimenting has so far failled.

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