Re: How to kill a dir?

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use rm -fR dirName instead of -fr

Wade

WipeOut wrote:

Brian Fahrlander wrote:

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:10, WipeOut wrote:


Quillen, Channon wrote:



Try placing the directory name in quotes "" or single quotes ''
Eg. rm -fr "test"

-Channon


Nope, that didn't help..

Thanks for trying..


   OK, time to get out the power tools. (I can't believe no one's
thrown this in already...)

   ls -lai  <----notice that the 'i' is included. Sample:

Inum: Perms Size, etc...
968014 -rw-rw-r-- 1 brian brian 3885999 Dec 24 15:12 ximian-artwork-0.2.26-1.i386.rpm
968013 -rw-rw-r-- 1 brian brian 327381 Dec 24 15:11 xmms-status-plugin-1.0-2.i386.rpm
968015 -rw-rw-r-- 1 brian brian 320725 Dec 24 15:12 xscorch-0.1.16-0.1pre2.i386.rpm
968016 -rw-rw-r-- 1 brian brian 441488 Dec 24 15:12 zsnes-1.36-3.i386.rpm


   Find the directory/file by it's inode number, then

   find . -inum 968016 -exec rm {} \;

   If it's a directory, (and it's empty) whatever 'find' finds it'll
run the command on, such as removing the 'znes' rpm above.  As far as I
know, this'll work on any file or directory, unless the attributes are
changed (like in the previous posts, using chattr) or unless the thing's
a directory that isn't empty.

   Enjoy!



The result.. :)

[root@dev02 i386]# ls -lai
ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
total 16
799767 drwxrwsr-x    3 root     root         4096 Jan  5 18:04 .
1665003 drwxrwsr-x    3 root     root         4096 Nov 12 07:03 ..
799769 drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         8192 Jan  4 19:44 test
[root@dev02 i386]# find . -inum 799769 -exec rm {} \;
rm: cannot remove `./test': Is a directory
find: ./??*?: No such file or directory

No joy..

Looks like I have found a weird one huh!!..







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