How to get rid of Firefox 0.8

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Mon Aug 9 23:45:36 UTC 2004


Beartooth wrote:
> [root at localhost btth]# rmdir -rf firefox rmdir: invalid option -- r Try
> `rmdir --help' for more information. [root at localhost btth]# rmdir --help
> Usage: rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they
> are empty.
That should be rm -rf: as it says, if the directory is not empty, it
won't work.

>       --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
>                   ignore each failure that is solely because a directory
> is non-empty

Note that "ignore a failure" doesn't mean "remove it anyway"...

HTH,

James.
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