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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:39:50 -0700
From:      "Riley J. McIntire" <rileyjmc@pacbell.net>
To:        "Beech Rintoul" <akbeech@sinbad.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: Can't delete a directory
Message-ID:  <HEEELMCBPANKADCOBOFPIEKHGBAA.rileyjmc@pacbell.net>
In-Reply-To: <200209111704.38102.akbeech@sinbad.net>

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> > root@wimp:obj# chflags -R noschg * && \rm -r usr/

> Try doing 
> 
> rm -R /usr/obj/usr
> 
> Beech

root@wimp:/# \rm -R /usr/obj/usr/
rm: /usr/obj/usr/fsck_msdosfs: Directory not empty
rm: /usr/obj/usr/: Directory not empty
root@wimp:/#


from man rm:

 -r          Equivalent to -R

Riley

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