On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 08:11:45PM -0700, Lokrin wrote: > I just checked. No, they are not the same inode. I think some program > got out of hand and just kept making them. In that case you want a recursive delete that's not depth-first, eg #!/bin/sh while [ -d foo/foo ]; do mv foo/foo foo-; rmdir foo; mv foo- foo; done -- "The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws" -- SCO smoking crack again.