Rightly or wrongly over the years I've refrained from using cygwin to delete large directories; instead, from bash I'll cd to the parent dir, and run:
cmd /c rmdir /s /q MYDIR2DELETE I think I had read something years back about cygwin's inode simulation (sorry to munge up the terminology), being imperfect; so that may have convinced me to not use "rm -rf DIRXXX". So is "rm -rf ./foo/" safe to use? Is there any danger that anything other than ./foo/ will be deleted? Thanks for any help, I'm mainly just curious. :-> -- Tom Rodman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
