-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Sultan Haque on 2/18/2009 1:45 PM:
Hello Sultan, > Hi, i named a directory a.out and put a copy file named HelloWorld.c in it. > Well now i am trying to delete the a.out directory by typing rmdir a.out but > it is telling me to empty directory. I am having a hard time emptying the > a.out directory. Please could you help me with this. You have two options. One is removing the contents of a.out manually (moving them somewhere else, or deleting them), prior to removing the directory: $ rm a.out/* $ rmdir a.out The other is to do it in one shot: $ rm -R a.out - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmctSIACgkQ84KuGfSFAYB75gCeLNSA21HtRxu6blaD2d7Ac0iu 9lYAoMuZvetVf6jWlXvX2YJmUtiLi6ig =fwMN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
