On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:00:52PM -0700, Edouard Saksonov wrote: > Hi, > I've just installed FreeBSD 5.1, everything is fine, but when I wanted to remove a > directory(with only one file in it), the system do not want to do that: > When I type > rmdir -p dir_name , it gives me as an output : > >rmdir: dir_name: Directory not empty
This is presumably correct. > When I try > rmdir -rf dir_name , it gives me as an output : > >rmdir: illegal option --r > >usage: rmdir [-p] directory ... This is also correct (rmdir does not have the -r option). > I installed FreeBSD 5.1 from the CD-ROM which comes with "Linux CD" magazine > Maybe something's wrong with this CD ? No, you're just misusing it :-) To remove a directory and all its contents, you want to use rm -r. Kris
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