Re: Can't delete directory

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@uomphysics.net>]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:02:41PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote:
  > 
   > cp /dev/null ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big
   > 
   > or
   > 
   > cat /dev/null > ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big
   > 
   > then try rm -rf?
   > 
   > HTH,
   > Jesse
   > 
mas@brahman:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1/t$ cp /dev/null big
cp: accessing `big': Value too large for defined data type
mas@brahman:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1/t$ cat /dev/null >
big
mas@brahman:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1/t$ d
big
mas@brahman:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1/t$ v
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 mas      mas             0 Nov 27 16:30 big
mas@brahman:~/software/debian/tmp/junk$ cd .. ; rm -rf perl-5.6.1/
mas@brahman:~/software/debian/tmp/junk$

Thanks a lot for the timely help,

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Sridhar M.A.                         mas@uomphysics.net

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