How to override rw-r–r— root/wheel for a all files in a directory

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I am trying to delete a directory on OS X. I do rm -r /path/dir but I keep getting many, many messages like this:

override rw-r--r--  root/wheel for cron/migrate.php?

I type y for one message, but then another one pops up. I would like to override the message for the whole directory in one command. How do I do that?

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First approach is, using -f option for rm command:

rm -rf /your/path

Second approach is,

yes | rm -r /your/path

First approach used more for your purpose and second approach used more for copy or moving files.

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That will first drill down the directory tree until it finds the first empty directory, then delete it. Thus making the parent directory empty which will then be deleted, etc. This will produce the desired effect (I do this probably 10 times a week, so I'm pretty sure it's right). :-)

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