17 Sep
2002
17 Sep
'02
12:21 p.m.
Hi!
I am trying to delete
directory with the following name
--(a)app.7 (which is autogenerated by amavis)
but when
I am trying to delete it
with rm -rf command
it gives me
error :
rm: unrecognized option '--(a)app.7'
how to delete this directory ??
Please help.
Hiten.
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17 Sep
12:58 p.m.
try,
rm --help (it will help you)
rm -fr -- --(a)app.7 (better do this it works)
-sanjeev
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Hiten Desai wrote:
Hi!
I am trying to delete
directory with the following name
--(a)app.7 (which is autogenerated by amavis)
but when
I am trying to delete it
with rm -rf command
it gives me
error :
rm: unrecognized option '--(a)app.7'
how to delete this directory ??
Please help.
Hiten.
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2:04 p.m.
Hiten,
I think the only option here is to give
rm *
and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file.
Anil
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Hiten Desai wrote:
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I am trying to delete directory with the
following name
--(a)app.7 (which is autogenerated by amavis) but when I am
trying to delete it with rm -rf command it gives me error :
rm: unrecognized option '--(a)app.7'
rm -rf -- --\(a)app.7
Manish
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2:23 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Anil Mare wrote:
I think the only option here is to give
rm *
and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file.
please, read the docs before suggesting something so daft. unix is over
30 years old. you'd think there were many others who came across this
problem.
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2:48 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:02:17 +0530 (IST)
Philip S Tellis <philip(a)konark.ncst.ernet.in> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Anil Mare wrote:
AFAIK, some systems have rm aliased to rm -i by default. Red Hat has
it done for root. I think Mandrake has it for all users. (It's that
way on sourceforge and sourceforge uses Mandrake, hence the
not-so-solid inference).
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We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed
I think the only option here is to give
rm *
and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file.
please, read the docs before suggesting something so daft. unix is
over 30 years old. you'd think there were many others who came
across this problem.
3:55 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
that's not what I meant. rm * is bad advice for anything.
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Time sharing: The use of many people by the computer.
please, read
the docs before suggesting something so daft. unix is
AFAIK, some systems have rm aliased to rm -i by default. Red Hat has
4:09 p.m.
It wud have been better if u wud have answered the members query,
rather than critizing others.
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Anil Mare wrote:
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I think the only option here is to give
rm *
and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file.
please, read the docs before suggesting something so daft. unix is
over
30 years old. you'd think there were many others who came across
this
problem.
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4:34 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:59:05AM -0700, Anil Mare wrote:
It wud have been better if u wud have answered the
members query,
rather than critizing others.
Actually, this would apply more to you! :)
Philip did the right thing by pointing out the possible disasters
with that particular "solution".
--
jaju
2:30 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:23:27 -0700 (PDT)
Anil Mare <anilmare(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I think the only option here is to give
rm *
and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file.
That's not guaranteed to ask you for confirmation. You should
explicitly specify the 'i' option.
rm -i *
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5:05 p.m.
try rm -rf ./--(a)app.7
Hiten Desai [linux-list] <16/09/02 21:54 -0700>:
Hi!
I am trying to delete
directory with the following name
--(a)app.7 (which is autogenerated by amavis)
but when
I am trying to delete it
with rm -rf command
it gives me
error :
rm: unrecognized option '--(a)app.7'
how to delete this directory ??
Please help.
Hiten.
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New subject: [LIH] could not delete directory
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Hiten Desai wrote:
Hi!
I am trying to delete
directory with the following name
--(a)app.7 (which is autogenerated by amavis)
but when
I am trying to delete it
with rm -rf command
it gives me
error :
rm: unrecognized option '--(a)app.7'
how to delete this directory ??
rm -rf \-\-\(a)app.7
or
rm -rf '--(a)app.7'
-Naren
2:04 p.m.
New subject: [LIH] could not delete directory
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Naren Devaiah wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^
<snip>
I guess Naren solutions will not work.
Naren have you ever tried these solutions
before?
Use any one of the following.
rm -rf -- --(a)app.7/
rm -rf -- --\(a)aap.7/
rm -rf ./--(a)app.7/
rm -rf ./--\(a)app.7/
--
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Technical Associate
ETU Division
NCST, Kharghar
=======================================
error :
rm: unrecognized option '--(a)app.7'
how to delete this directory ??
rm -rf \-\-\(a)app.7
or
rm -rf '--(a)app.7'
-Naren
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