From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 11:24:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA04148 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:24:20 -0800 Received: from palestrina.music.ua.edu (palestrina.music.ua.edu [130.160.156.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA04139 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:24:11 -0800 Received: (from travis@localhost) by palestrina.music.ua.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA01129 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 13:24:01 -0600 From: Travis Campbell Message-Id: <199511221924.NAA01129@palestrina.music.ua.edu> Subject: Removing /usr/src/bin/{ed,red} To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 13:23:59 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1271 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk What is the {easiest,safest,best} way to remove /usr/src/bin/{ed,red}? I've tried rm -rf'ing and rmdir'ing them, and each try failed. gaia# rm -rf /usr/src/bin rm: /usr/src/bin/ed: Directory not empty rm: /usr/src/bin/red: Directory not empty rm: /usr/src/bin: Directory not empty gaia# ls -lRai /usr/src/bin total 4 28334 drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 512 Nov 22 11:45 ./ 140824 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Nov 22 11:47 ../ 28412 drwxrwxr-x 3 root bin 512 Nov 22 11:51 ed/ 28412 drwxrwxr-x 3 root bin 512 Nov 22 11:51 red/ /usr/src/bin/ed: total 2 28412 drwxrwxr-x 3 root bin 512 Nov 22 11:51 ./ 28334 drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 512 Nov 22 11:45 ../ /usr/src/bin/red: total 2 28412 drwxrwxr-x 3 root bin 512 Nov 22 11:51 ./ 28334 drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 512 Nov 22 11:45 ../ gaia# The /usr/src tree was from 2.0.5R. Thanks for any help you can give. Travis -- Travis Campbell Email: travis@palestrina.music.ua.edu ----------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CoSysop of The Ragged Edge BBS | Wizard of Outskirts of Infinity MUD telnet palestrina.music.ua.edu | Running CircleMUD 2.21 login: bbs | telnet soultrain.music.ua.edu 4000