% mkdir -p fred/jim % chmod a-x fred/jim % rm -rf fred rm: cannot chdir from `fred' to `jim': Permission denied
But since I own the directory I could change the permissions and then remove it. Shouldn't rm do this if I gave the 'force' option? I thought that would take all measures necessary. After all, rm -f doesn't care about permissions on files before removing them, so shouldn't it work equally well with directories? Even if it does have to chmod u+rx them behind the scenes. % rm --version | head -1 rm (coreutils) 5.0 -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
