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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:17:20 +0200
From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za>
To: Anders Andersson <anders@sanyusan.se>, Anand Buddhdev <me@anand.org>,
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Subject: Re: rm dir, not empty?
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On Mon 1998-08-31 (14:29), 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

I tend to think that there are some immutable files somewhere down that
directory.

Try:
chflags -R noschg libgmp && rm -rf libgmp

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za

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