From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 21 11:31:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15496 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:31:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA15490 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:31:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA11461; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:27:44 -0500 Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa01392; 21 Feb 97 14:31 EST Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:30:38 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: David Stickney cc: "'FBSD ISP'" Subject: Re: Big Directories.. In-Reply-To: <01BC2023.E0990480@david> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 .