Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:55:15 +0300 From: Anand Buddhdev <me@anand.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm dir, not empty? Message-ID: <19980831145515.A22656@iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <006d01bdd4bf$9b5dcde0$4467a8c0@anders.sanyusan.se>; from Anders Andersson on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 11:13:24AM %2B0200 References: <006d01bdd4bf$9b5dcde0$4467a8c0@anders.sanyusan.se>
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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' 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
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