On Sun, Aug 10, 1997 at 05:21:23PM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > > When I attempted to remove (as root) an old subdirectory under > > /usr/local using 'rm -d', I got an "Operation not permitted" > > response. The info reference on 'rm' gives the '-d' option. > > You ABSOLUTLY NEVER want to use the -d option to rm. That will seriously > corrupt your filesystem (it deletes the directory inode without deleting > the files in the directory). The proper way to remove a directory and its > comments is 'rm -rf <dirname>' Thanks for the information. If this is really a *bad* idea, it ought not to be in the info program as a viable option to rm without some explanation. -- Gary
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