Re: rm question

2000-03-28 Thread Maurizio Boriani
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 04:47:38PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded > subdirectories, I did > rm -d kdeo > and I get Operation not permitted. > Now, I am doing it as root, so, the permission should not be an issue. > Whats the problem? Is

Re: rm question

2000-03-28 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 try rm -f [dir] Syd - - Original Message - From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:47 Subject: rm question I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded subdirectories, I did rm -d k

Re: rm question

2000-03-28 Thread kmself
To recursively remove a directory "foo", all files and subdirectories, and not be queried about the request: rm -rf foo Please note that this is not an undoable operation, and you can seriously fsck things up if you do the wrong thing, particularly as root. One trick I'll sometimes do when I

Re: rm question

2000-03-28 Thread David Z. Maze
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AR> I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded AR> subdirectories, I did AR> rm -d kdeo AR> and I get Operation not permitted. AR> Now, I am doing it as root, so, the permission should not be an issue. AR> Whats the problem? Is there a

Re: rm question

2000-03-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 04:47:38PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded > subdirectories, I did > rm -d kdeo > and I get Operation not permitted. you don't want to delete non-empty directories that way unless you want filesystem corruption.

Re: rm question

2000-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antonio Rodriguez) wrote: >I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded >subdirectories, I did >rm -d kdeo > and I get Operation not permitted. >Now, I am doing it as root, so, the permission should not be an issue. >Whats the problem? Is there a better way of remov

Re: rm question

2000-03-28 Thread ChangMin Oh
Try 'rm -rf kdeo'. - Original Message - From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 1:47 AM Subject: rm question > I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded > subdirectories, I did > rm -d kdeo > and I get Operation not permitted

Re: rm question

2000-03-28 Thread spectral
> I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded > subdirectories, I did > rm -d kdeo > and I get Operation not permitted. i use rm -r instead. /Jonas