Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010817064030.00aa91f8@pop-server.socal.rr.com> X-Sender: cloder@pop-server.socal.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:42:26 -0700 To: egor duda From: Chad Loder Subject: Solved: Cygwin 'rm' leaves hidden 'deleted' directories around Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <149333982561.20010817172808@logos-m.ru> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010817060211.00aab470@pop-server.socal.rr.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010817060211.00aab470@pop-server.socal.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At Friday 8/17/2001 05:28 PM +0400, you wrote: >first, check if you're really using cygwin's 'rm'. use 'cygcheck rm' >to find out. your path contains a lot of directories before /bin, so >maybe you're using, rm from java, or from /p/Bin/ Good call! bash$ cygcheck rm Found: P:\Bin\rm.exe Found: c:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe Found: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\rm.exe P:\Bin\rm.exe C:\WINNT\System32\MSVCRT.dll C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL Use -h to see help about each section bash$ rm /? Microsoft File Removal Utility. Version rmj.0rmm.00rup Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1987-98. All rights reserved. Usage: RM [/help] [/ikft] [/x [/d]] [/r dir] files /help invoke Quick Help for this utility /i inquire of user for each file for permission to remove /k keep read only files, no prompting to remove them /r dir recurse into subdirectories /f force delete of read only files without prompting /t attempt to take ownership of file if delete fails /x dont save deleted files in deleted subdirectory /d delay until next reboot. Boy, that's retarded...I didn't expect Microsoft to ship their own 'rm' with their platform SDK. :) Thanks! c -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/