rm doesnt' delete

2007-01-12 Thread Lise Slama
Hello I have some trouble with "rm". When I do rm --recursive --verbose a.out or more generally when I use "rm -R", it only deletes the corresponding files in the current directory. Do you know if there is some thing to configure or some way to correct that? Thank you Regards Lise __

Re: rm doesnt' delete

2007-01-12 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Lise Slama wrote: When I do rm --recursive --verbose a.out or more generally when I use "rm -R", it only deletes the corresponding files in the current directory. rm will only delete the filename specified to it. If one of those files is a directory and --recursiv

Re: rm doesnt' delete

2007-01-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Lise Slama wrote: > I have some trouble with "rm". > > When I do > > rm --recursive --verbose a.out > > or more generally when I use "rm -R", it only deletes the corresponding > files in the current directory. > Do you know if there is some thing to configure or some way to correct that?

Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

2007-01-12 Thread Georg Schwarz
Am 07.01.2007 um 22:05 schrieb Paul Eggert: Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Making check in dd No suffix list. make check-TESTS No suffix list. Segmentation fault - core dumped ... obviously that's less than 100% OK. Do you have any suggestions what I should start to inves

Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Eggert
Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > + echo data > + ln dd-in.797 dd-in2.797 > + ln -s dd-in.797 dd-sym.797 > + test 0 = 1 > + dd if=dd-in.797 of=dd-out.797 > Segmentation fault - core dumped OK, so we have a very simple test case to illustrate the problem: echo data > input dd if=i