rm -r crippled in Red Hat 8
To my surprise, rm -r does not work in Red Hat 8. I tried to rub out a directory full of files and sub-directories and Red Hat asked for confirmation of deletion for each and every file! I had to hit "y" 30 times just to delete the files in one sub-directory alone. This is disgusting. How do I get rm * and rm -r to work properly in Red Hat 8 ?
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, millward wrote:
To my surprise, rm -r does not work in Red Hat 8. I tried to rub out a directory full of files and sub-directories and Red Hat asked for confirmation of deletion for each and every file! I had to hit "y" 30 times just to delete the files in one sub-directory alone. This is disgusting. How do I get rm * and rm -r to work properly in Red Hat 8 ?
unalias rm it's probably set to rm -i. Cheers. --- Michael J. Dikkema, CCNP, CCIP Senior Systems Engineer - Qanda Networks mjd@moot.ca
On July 10, 2004 08:54 pm, millward wrote:
To my surprise, rm -r does not work in Red Hat 8. I tried to rub out a directory full of files and sub-directories and Red Hat asked for confirmation of deletion for each and every file! I had to hit "y" 30 times just to delete the files in one sub-directory alone. This is disgusting. How do I get rm * and rm -r to work properly in Red Hat 8 ?
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Same as in Mandrake. I think this is a thing with the root account. Try "rm -rf <dir_name>". Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | |Call-A.P.P.L.E. and the Digital Civilization http://www.callapple.org | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------
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