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Date:       Tue, 16 May 1995 13:57:00 -0400 
From:      "bo (b.) xiao" <xiao@bnr.ca>
To:        uh@grep.cs.fsu.edu
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:    re:rm problem 
Message-ID:   <"15880 Tue May 16 13:58:27 1995"@bnr.ca> 

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In message "rm problem", uh@grep.cs.fsu.edu writes:

> Hi, all..
> 
> I have a directory 'trash' in /usr. I tried to delete that
> directory by 'rm -r trash' but it fails with following error
> message:
> 
> rm: trash/comms/kermit/scripts: Directory not empty
> rm: trash/comms/kermit: Directory not empty
> rm: trash/comms: Directory not empty
> rm: trash: Directory not empty
See if there is any filenames starting with a dot(.) in the said
directories.

Bo



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