On Saturday, Feb 1, 2003, at 18:22 US/Pacific, David R. Morrison wrote:
I"m very puzzled by your error message (and I had speculated that perhapsSadly, the OP did not include any real information in his message. I suppose it's possible that the directory in question contains files that the preceding 'rm' did not actually remove. FWIW, the "-R" will *not* override permissions.
you had some non-standard version of "rm" installed). The command given
is "rm -R directory" and the error message complains about the directory
not being empty; but the whole point of -R is that it should remove
both the directory and its contents.
Does anybody else have an idea about this one?
Regards,
Justin
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