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bug#27632: rm -f fais on directories
From: |
Tino Calancha |
Subject: |
bug#27632: rm -f fais on directories |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:19:46 +0900 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Marv Graham <address@hidden> writes:
> This is VERY unexpected behavior! An 'rm -f' command has (for my experience
> in the last 30 years) removed anything.
>
> What;'s the problem with rm on ubuntu?
Flag -f won't delete directories.
To remove anything, you'd use: rm -rf
Use flag -r (or -R) to delete directories. If you prefer
delete _empty_ directories but preserve non-empty dirs, then use
flag -d.
>From the 'rm' manual:
-r, -R, --recursive
remove directories and their contents recursively
-d, --dir
remove empty directories