[RndTbl] non-deletable directory but writable inside the directory

Montana Quiring montanaq at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 11:04:30 CDT 2009


ya! It works like a charm.
I made the immutable file a '.' (hidden) file so that it doesn't even show
up in ROX.
Thanks for your help Gilbert.
-MQ

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux <
gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

> On 2009-06-30 10:46, Montana Quiring wrote:
>
>> ohhh... good idea! thanks.
>> I would still want to empty out the Desktop directory every reboot. I'm
>> wondering if the *rm* command would delete everything but the immutable file
>> or just stop and error out. I'll have to test.
>>
>
> "rm -f" should do the trick, since it will ignore errors and continue.
>
>
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