From: setera@us.ibm.com
Subject: B20.1: rm -f does not force?
10 Dec 1998 23:28:53 -0800
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It seems that in B20.1 (not sure if this was a problem in B20 or not) that
the force parameter to rm does not always work.  I haven't quite figured
out the circumstances, but the following excerpt from a make show the
result:

xc: make clean
make -f xmakefile clean
rm -f -r ./exports/include
rm: ./exports/include/X11/PEX5: Permission denied
rm: ./exports/include/X11: Directory not empty
rm: ./exports/include: Directory not empty
make[1]: *** [clean] Error 1
make: *** [clean] Error 2
xc: rm -r -f export/include
xc:

Doesn't force mean FORCE??   As you can see, if I rerun the command it
works.

Craig

Craig Setera
AS/400 Enterprise Java Development
IBM Rochester
setera@us.ibm.com
(507) 253-3387 - Tie: 553-3387


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