Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:29:01 +0200 From: "Anders Andersson" <anders@sanyusan.se> To: "Anand Buddhdev" <me@anand.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: rm dir, not empty? Message-ID: <009d01bdd4da$ef687000$4467a8c0@anders.sanyusan.se>
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-----Original Message----- From: Anand Buddhdev <me@anand.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <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
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