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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:30:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        David Stickney <david@wvb.gomel.by>
Cc:        "'FBSD ISP'" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Big Directories..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970221142956.24132A-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <01BC2023.E0990480@david>

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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, David Stickney wrote:

> I some questions, that nobody can seem to answer
> 
> while : ; do
>      mkdir x
>      cd x
> done
> 
> 2. How can you get rid of the directory once it has 300 or so 
> subdirectories. The shell keeps saying there is no such directory, and 

What I did once was cd down several levels and move what was below up into
a higher dir - over and over again - until what was below me was removable
with rm -r .




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