From: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net>
To: <beaumose@iquip.nl>
Cc: <fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: recursive rm and ls don't work (Win98)
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 05:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000b01c1c37c$79c68960$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk> (raw)
> rm -rf *.~*
> ls -r *.~*
> ls -r *.pas
> However,
> ls -r *
> works
The rm report ("it doesn't work") is strange. I guess it's a bit scary to
risk trying rm -r or even rm -rv, depending on how rm is aliased for you
(with or without -i?). Why not just
cp -vr {important directory with subdirectories} ~/mytmp
and then try rm -rv mytmp and see what happens?
Your ls report isn't strange, or doesn't seem strange to me. The -r switch
determines the order in which the folders are listed; to get a recursive
listing try ls -R. So I can't quite think what you mean by "ls -r * works"
because I don't think this should list the contents of subdirectories?
Fergus
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