From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 23:54:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA03239 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:54:41 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA03223 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:54:17 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA04565; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 08:53:45 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA12217 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 08:53:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA19491 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 08:02:08 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506210602.IAA19491@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: rm -ir problem? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 08:02:06 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 572 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Why am i asked twice for each leaf directory? news@uriah 8% rm -ir /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd remove /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd? y remove /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd/announce? y remove /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd/announce? y remove /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd/apps? y remove /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd/apps? y remove /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd/bugs? y remove /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd/bugs? y ... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)