Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:29:46 +0800 From: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remove a non-empty directory Message-ID: <200403030829.46945.satimis@icare.com.hk> In-Reply-To: <200403021428.i22ES5Z04990@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200403021428.i22ES5Z04990@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Hi Jerry and other folks, Lot of thanks for your advice on the captioned question and time spent. I learn an alternative in removing a non-empty directory. mc/midnight commander is a small program. It moves and removes/deletes directory including sub-directories and files at the same. It also has editing capability. It is a small and handy tool. I have it installed from 'PORT'. B.R. Stephen On Tuesday 02 March 2004 22:28, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Hi all folks, > > > > Kindly advise where can I find the small program 'midnight commander' for > > FreeBSD. OR what command line shall be applied on FBSD to remove a > > non-empty directory together with its content > > I have never tried anything called midnight commander, but you might > check in the ports collection. If you installed the skeleton like > you should have, go to /usr/ports and start looking around. > > As for removing a non-empty directory: > > rm -r dirname > > I normally cd to the dir's parent (just above it) and do a couple > of checks of where I am and what I am rm-ing before actually doing > it, because once you hit enter it is gone. > > If you happen to have any files in that directory tree with flags > set, especially schg, then it will not remove those, but will all > the others. Then you would have to go in and run chflags noschg on > those files and then go back out and run the rm -r again. > It will ask you if it is OK to remove those files and act like it > did, but it won't. kernel is one of those files that normally > have schg set on it. see man chflags > > ////jerry > > > TIA > > > > B.R. > > satimis > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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