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Re: [ProgSoc] rm'ing too hard





On Mon, 8 May 2006, Ryan Heise wrote:

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:09:08PM +1000, Christian Kent wrote:
Running rm ./dir/* causes an error, 'too many arguments'.  Bash wildcard
error, I believe.

Maybe this will work:

$ rm -r dir
$ mkdir dir

Nope, in the end I had to use the dreaded rm -rf.

$ rm -rf ./dir

just to be safe  :-)

I also tried with just -f but of course it wasn't empty, so nogo.

CK.

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