[plug] rmdir problems

Jim Householder nofixed at westnet.com.au
Sat Feb 5 19:45:26 WST 2005


James Devenish wrote:
> Joong: if you want to delete the directory and don't want to look
> for 'hidden' files, use `rm` instead of `rmdir`. It's like this:
> 
> rm -rf directory_name
> 
> The 'f' option, in particular, will force all files to be removed
> at your current permissions level. If you do not have sufficient
> permissions, you will be told this explicitly for each affected file.
> 
It's been my experience that only root can use -r.

Jim



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