rmdir error message?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:02:11AM -0500, Robert Story wrote:
> The issue is that the directory isn't empty. Try running 'ls -a' to see all
> files (including the 'dot' files, which aren't shown by default). There is a
> flag (-f) to force the remove, but you should check what's in there before you
> delete the dir...

The flag is for the rm command as in "rm -r -f <directory>". Using "rm -r"
in any form, especially with the "-f" flag is how newbies become system
recovery experts overnight. :-)

Geoff.

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