From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 13:36:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from http.pe.net (http.pe.net [216.100.16.4]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E5F4225 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:36:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dmahoney@localhost) by http.pe.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA23193; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:48:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20000203104808.B23033@pe.net> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:48:08 -0800 From: Dan Mahoney <dmahoney@pe.net> To: Mauricio Marquez <mmarquez@enlace.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleting a nasty directory entry References: <3.0.32.20000203123116.016b1d40@enlace.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000203123116.016b1d40@enlace.net>; from Mauricio Marquez on Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:31:17PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:31:17PM -0600, Mauricio Marquez wrote: > > I went with rm -i * but it says some weird characters (different that what > appears in the ls display) is a directory. Now there´s no way I can match > those weird characters to try to do an RMDIR ´weird chars´ and there´s no > RMDIR -i option. Try using "rm -ri *" instead of "rm -i *". The -r makes it a recursive command - that is, it says to delete all the directory contents, then delete the directory itself. Just be REALLY sure to include the -i! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message