Marv Graham <[email protected]> writes:
> This is VERY unexpected behavior! An 'rm -f' command has (for my experience
> in the last 30 years) removed anything.
>
> What;'s the problem with rm on ubuntu?
Flag -f won't delete directories.
To remove anything, you'd use: rm -rf
Use flag -r (or -R) to delete directories. If you prefer
delete _empty_ directories but preserve non-empty dirs, then use
flag -d.
>From the 'rm' manual:
-r, -R, --recursive
remove directories and their contents recursively
-d, --dir
remove empty directories
