Have we tried rmdir at all though? Try the find command listed below, but substitute rmdir for rm in the -exec.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wade Chandler [SMTP:wchandler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:35 PM
> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: How to kill a dir?
>
> not really if a directory doesn't have rm -fR or -Rf used on it, it must
> have rmdir used on it...hint though....rmdir won't work if the directory
> isn't empty.
>
> Wade
>
> WipeOut wrote:
>
> > Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:10, WipeOut wrote:
> >> 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 {} \;
> >>
>
