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On Sunday 27 February 2005 21:39, Julian Hall wrote:
Hi All, I'm trying to remove two directories in my home folder. Both eachhave 1 subfolder which is *empty* - at least ls shows no content in them. However they won't go away even when I use 'rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty'. Ideas gratefully received. BTW I think now I know why it's bad to install programs to/home.... system just had a mare when it said /home/julian was out of diskspace and caused me to spend 20 minutes while it checked the drives on a reboot. I think perhaps I'll reinstall Thunderbird and Firefox in /usr/bin (that is the right place isn't it?)
rm -r --force thatdirectory **be carfeul** typing that in as you can do a whole heap of damage with a forced recursive removal! -- Robin Cornelius --------------------------------------------------- robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.cornelius.demon.co.uk http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400 GPG Key ID: 0x729A79A23B7EE764 http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x729A79A23B7EE764
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