Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:31:00 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Edouard Saksonov <edouard_bsd@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can not rmdir Message-ID: <20030822193100.GC97519@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030822190052.25702.qmail@web12408.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030822190052.25702.qmail@web12408.mail.yahoo.com>
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--f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:00:52PM -0700, Edouard Saksonov wrote: > Hi, > I've just installed FreeBSD 5.1, everything is fine, but when I wanted to= remove a directory(with only one file in it), the system do not want to do= that: > When I type=20 > rmdir -p dir_name , it gives me as an output : > >rmdir: dir_name: Directory not empty =20 This is presumably correct. > When I try=20 > rmdir -rf dir_name , it gives me as an output : > >rmdir: illegal option --r > >usage: rmdir [-p] directory ... This is also correct (rmdir does not have the -r option). > I installed FreeBSD 5.1 from the CD-ROM which comes with "Linux CD" magaz= ine > Maybe something's wrong with this CD ? No, you're just misusing it :-) To remove a directory and all its contents, you want to use rm -r. Kris --f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Rm9zWry0BWjoQKURAk2LAJ9YAF743J4UNn06Regtm93TABV0hwCdFoCa nIKlt/m4Ep6jEaD8ThIcokE= =pc6n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu--
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