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Re: rm'ing directories



John Greer wrote:
> 
> I was installing a few programs on my system (hamm) and now that I
> have tried them out I don't really want them I tried to rm them off of
> the system rm -rd directory but it will not remove them.  I tried as a
> normal user, as su, and as root.  I get an do you wish to remove
> mode 0755 and then an Operation not Permitted error.  Any help??
> 

Just make sure that you want to remove the entire directory and its
contents.  If the program is in /usr/.. for example you wouldn't want to
get rid of /usr.  Maybe you know this, just wanted to make sure:)
kent


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