From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 31 05:31:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA11836 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 05:31:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enterprise.sanyusan.se (enterprise.sanyusan.se [195.24.160.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA11831 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 05:31:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anders@sanyusan.se) Received: from anders.sanyusan.se (anders.sanyusan.se [192.168.103.68]) by enterprise.sanyusan.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA29172; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:24:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anders@sanyusan.se) Message-ID: <009d01bdd4da$ef687000$4467a8c0@anders.sanyusan.se> From: "Anders Andersson" To: "Anand Buddhdev" , Subject: Re: rm dir, not empty? Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:29:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Anand Buddhdev To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: den 31 augusti 1998 14:19 Subject: Re: rm dir, not empty? >On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 11:13:24AM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > >> [root@enterprise /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/lib]# rm -rf libgmp/ >> rm: libgmp/: Directory not empty > >Try 'rm -rf libgmp' > rm -rf libgmp gives me the same error: [root@enterprise /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/lib]# rm -rf libgmp rm: libgmp/: Directory not empty // Anders >Note that there's no slash at the end of the directory. I'm not sure why, >but you can't delete a directory if there's a slash following it. > >-- >Anand > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message