On 20/11/2013 22:32, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 11/21/2013 01:48 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:Isn't it my computer? How do I override such a refusal?$ rm -rv "$(pwd -P)" removed directory: ‘/tmp/xx’
-- That doesn't give the same behavior and isn't what I want. Compare to "cp". Say I want to create a copy of what is in dir "a" inside of a pre-existing dir "b". In dir "a" are files and sub dirs. On some of those subdirs, other file systems *may* be mounted -- EITHER in the dir immediately under "a", OR lower: I would use "cp -alx a/. b/." Sometime later, I want to remove the contents of 'b' w/o disturbing 'b'. 'b' may have file systems mounted under it or not. Again, I would use the "dot" notation. "rm -fxr b/." "rm -fxr <path>/b", as you suggest isn't the same thing. Directories are containers. I want to work just with the contents -- not the directory itself. So how do I override the refusal -- and get the same results?
