rm -rf and recursive nothing

Oliver Fromme olli at fromme.com
Fri Jul 21 04:01:16 PDT 2006


Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
 > dev# ls -la pkgsrc/
 > total 3
 > drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  1024 Jul 20 22:27 .
 > drwxr-xr-x  54 root  wheel  1536 Jul 20 22:27 ..
 > dev# rm pkgsrc
 > rm: pkgsrc: is a directory
 > dev# rm -rf pkgsrc
 > recursively remove pkgsrc?

This might be a dumb question, but why don't you use rmdir?
rmdir is the UNIX command to remove (empty) directories.

Personally I have an alias rd=rmdir (and md=mkdir), which
is a left-over from my old DOS days.  :-)

By the way, shouldn't -f override any previous -i or -I
option?  At least that's what I would expect.  You don't
type -f without a reason.

Best regards
   Oliver

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