How to kill a dir?
Steven Stern
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Mon Jan 5 21:37:15 UTC 2004
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:22:57 +0000, WipeOut <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
>
>[root at 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 at 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!!..
How about
mv *test* newname
cd newname
rm -f -r *
cd ..
rmdir newname
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