Re: rm -rf and recursive nothing

[Peter Avalos <pavalos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:13:42PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> I noticed something strange.  I unpacked the pkgsrc tarball to the wrong
> directory, and moved the contents.  After copying it up, I deleted the
> directory, which was empty.
> 
> 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?
> 
> However, I still got the "recursively remove <dirname>" warning that comes
> from trying to delete more than 3 files.  It lists a total of 3, but only
> names 2.  This was on a 1.4.4 system
> 
> 

Sounds like you have an alias for rm that does rm -I.

--Peter

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