removing hard linked directories
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Sat Mar 23 04:07:44 AEST 1991
In article <9103211912.08 at rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk at rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
|> In article <1991Mar20.013744.12749 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
|> >How would you recommend removing a directory that is linked under several
|> >different names? The directory really is empty but rmdir lies and says
|> >it is not empty.
|>
|> Try using rm -r.
This will not work.
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