On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Jim Meyering wrote: >>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?
>rm may not do that. POSIX prohibits it. In that case could I make a feature request for a new flag -F, --really-force As --force but also change permissions if necessary. -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils