Re: can we remove a directory from within that directory??

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, kuldeep vyas wrote:

> I'm using Redhat 9 (kernel 2.4.20-8 on i686)
> I logged in as k(username), then I started terminal, &
> then I gave following commands:-
[snip]

> k>ls /home/k/
>  // my_dir gone
>
> k>pwd
> /home/k/my_dir
>  // oops!!

It's likely here that "pwd" is the shell's builtin version, rather than 
coreutils'.

Here what I see when calling /bin/pwd explicitly:

$ rmdir -v $(/bin/pwd)
rmdir: removing directory, /tmp/not-here
$ /bin/pwd
/bin/pwd: cannot get current directory: No such file or directory

I'd agree that this discrepancy between shell builtin and coreutil is 
somewhat confusing.


Cheers,
Phil