Here I though rm would go in and still remove all it could. But it turns out that it gives up before going deeper upon encountering hindrances. $ id uid=1000(jidanni) gid=1000(jidanni) groups=1000(jidanni) $ ls -la cds drwxrwxrwx 3 root staff 4096 2003-12-06 10:49 . drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 4096 2003-12-06 10:29 .. -r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 510021216 2003-12-06 10:15 data.bin $ /bin/rm -rf * /bin/rm: cannot remove `cds': Permission denied $ /bin/rm -rf cds /bin/rm: cannot remove `cds': Permission denied $ ls -l cds/data.bin -r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 510021216 2003-12-06 10:15 cds/data.bin $ /bin/rm -rf cds/data.bin The file is now finally gone. OK, next time I'll use find cds -type f|xargs rm, etc. Anyway, the docs don't seem to document the above case.
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