Re: Can't delete directory

2001-11-26 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:02:41PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > > cp /dev/null ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big > > or > > cat /dev/null > ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big > > then try rm -rf? > > HTH, > Jesse > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl

Re: Can't delete directory

2001-11-26 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:14, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a peculiar problem. I am currently running potato. > Downloaded perl5.6* from testing and started to compile. After > some 3 or 4 minutes the process aborted (98.41% sucessful) :-( > > So, I thought I would just delete the

Can't delete directory

2001-11-26 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am facing a peculiar problem. I am currently running potato. Downloaded perl5.6* from testing and started to compile. After some 3 or 4 minutes the process aborted (98.41% sucessful) :-( So, I thought I would just delete the diretory. But a directory `t' in perl-5.6.1 is giving trouble. rm