I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
works like deltree in dos.
rm -rf dirname
In general, refer to man rm, or man
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 01:23:20PM -0800, Britton wrote:
Good point. It's actually a dangerous thing to do period. It's not a
question of if you will one day trash crucial stuff, it's when. I
reccoment you make up a ~/recycle directory or something like it and then
use mv -R whatever ~/tmp.
On Mon, 11 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Possibly a dangerous suggestion. If you get used to having a system where
files are not really deleted, then one day you'll use another system,
rm -rf something and it's really gone.
That's why I stopped doing that. I just learned not to use rm -rf
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:10:45AM -0400, Keith wrote:
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
works like deltree in
rm -rf directory_name
try `man rm' for more info.
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote:
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
works like deltree in dos.
Keith
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On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:10:45AM -0400, Keith wrote:
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
works like deltree in
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:10:45AM -0400, Keith wrote:
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I
Keith wrote:
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
works like deltree in dos.
I have no idea how deltree works, but
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote:
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
works like deltree in dos.
rm -rf
Bob
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote:
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
works like deltree in dos.
rm -r
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote:
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Britton wrote:
Good point. It's actually a dangerous thing to do period. It's not a
question of if you will one day trash crucial stuff, it's when. I
Yes, I've done this a few times, so I was speaking from experience.
Always manage to do it when a project's on my
Dear all,
Is it essential to send pgp sigs with everything? I can't remove
them with pine before I save the message, and they eat into my space on
cus...
Thanks :)
Matthew
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