On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to remove a bad install of VMWare by using;
rmdir -v -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty *
(--ignore-fail-on-non-empty was found in MAN)
The command line accepts the command without complaint,
It is a valid command line, but not an appropriate tool for the
described purpose.
then fails to remove the directories.
It's likely that the directories specified are not empty. rmdir only
works on empty directories, because the underlying rmdir(2) system call
does likewise.
It also fails to remove
directories when * is replaced by a directory name.
Because the shell replaces the wildcard "*" by matching directory
entries, this is to be expected.
Assuming you have permission to remove the files, the following will do
what you want:
rm -v -rf -- *
Cheers,
Phil
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