Jack wrote: > rm -r -f /delete/my/dir/and/contents William Turner wrote: > rm <directory> -R -f
The laptop I was originally having the problem with is back at the office and I haven't been able to try that on that machine. But, I just had the same issue with an old laptop drive. I tried both of those, plus the rmdir equivalents, but none of that worked. I was planning to wipe/format the drive anyway, so I'll go ahead and do that. Random thought... would a bad block on the drive cause directories to be non-deletable? Another semi-related question... Why must rmdir have an unnecessarily long option like "--ignore-fail-on-not-empty"???? It only has a couple of other options so there are plenty of single letters to choose from. What's wrong with "-f" or "-i" etc?? I don't get it. Or should I just ask the author? LOL JMJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
