On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 17:28, Kevin McMahon wrote: > ydl 4.0 and I am using the terminal to remove directories and tarballs, > I can remove them, the tarballs with the rm command, the gz and bz2, and > the directories with the rmdir command but an error that says 'directory > not empty appears, is this a simple add a flag or what is the issue???
This may not be the best way of things but this always worked for me. rmdir a non-empty directory never worked for me either (?!?!) So I just use "rm -rdf". No problems ever so far. 'man rmdir' and 'info coreutils rmdir' revealed: "--ignore-fail-on-non-empty" option. Thats a long command to type does it? rm -rdf does the job just right :) _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
