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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Removing directories Date: 18 May 1995 11:00:41 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3pf9cp$6jr@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <3pd8hc$tc@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fileserv1.mi.uni-koeln.de To: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) In article <3pd8hc$tc@news.bu.edu>, mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) writes: |> When trying to remove a directory using either rm -r or rmdir I get |> <dir_name>: is a directory |> |> rm -r, however, removes all the directories on the lower level... You are using $ rmdir dirname/ with a tailing slash "/", probably due to file name completion in bash or some other shell puting the slash at the end of an inclomplete path name. Try $ rmdir dirname instead. Immediate success guaranteed :) Regards, -- Stefan Esser Internet: <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706017 Universitaet zu Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 Weyertal 80 50931 Koeln