I don't think you want the -f. I just emptied my home directory
checking it. rm -ir, very good. rm -ifr, it's gone. Oh, well, I
wanted to clean it up anyway. Maybe later versions of rm give -i
precedence over -f, but mine didn't.
Lawson
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, CaT wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 01:05:09AM -0500, Wes wrote:
> > I need some help removing a dir.
> >
> > This is the dir i need to del
> >
\226\312N\024\307\227+\005:\257\235\212n\210A\r'Y\356P\201_\264\361\325\315\
> >
331\221\347\232\032\270\326\tC\\T\316\373\344\2422\033\307\200\201\233\347\3
> > 50\207\224;\300w\271\324\255\017\261\256w\375A^[[
>
> try:
>
> rm -ifr *
>
> It'll ask you if you want to delete something, file/dir by file/dir...
>
> --
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http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null
>
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