From: Scott Pack <spack@cs.ohiou.edu>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to delete a special directory
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:33:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070209143345.GB8710@crichton> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45CC8556.3030308@gmail.com>
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M?rio Gamito [gamito@gmail.com] wrote:
> I've accidently created two directories: -f and -q
>
> Now, i can't remove them with rm -rf -f -q
> I get an error.
>
Try giving the full path name to the directory. Such as,
rm -rdf ./-f ./-q
S.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-09 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-09 14:29 How to delete a special directory Mário Gamito
2007-02-09 14:33 ` Scott Pack [this message]
2007-02-09 15:01 ` Karey Weston
2007-02-09 16:59 ` Glynn Clements
2007-02-09 17:15 ` Darío Mariani
2007-02-09 18:07 ` Glynn Clements
2007-02-09 14:35 ` Florian Klien
[not found] ` <200702090934.43065.doug@hunley.homeip.net>
2007-02-09 17:22 ` Mário Gamito
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