Beartooth wrote:
> [root@localhost btth]# rmdir -rf firefox rmdir: invalid option -- r Try
> `rmdir --help' for more information. [root@localhost btth]# rmdir --help
> Usage: rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they
> are empty.
That should be rm -rf: as it says, if the directory is not empty, it
won't work.
> --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
> ignore each failure that is solely because a directory
> is non-empty
Note that "ignore a failure" doesn't mean "remove it anyway"...
HTH,
James.
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