How to kill a dir?

[Jens R. Victorin]

I've been there before...

If it's the only directory or file with test in its name at that
location try;

mv ./*test* test

then

rm -rf ./test

/Jens

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 22:20, WipeOut wrote:
> >
> >
> >Naw let's not let Fedora get the best of us.  Two questions;
> >1. are you doing this as root?
> >2. is your rm command aliased to something else? (try "alias rm" to check).
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Yes I am root..
> Output from alias rm..
> [root at dev02 i386]# alias rm
> alias rm='rm -i'
> 
> 
> I have rebooted the system so I doubt its an open file or a hung process..
-- 
Jens R. Victorin <jens_r_victorin at telia.com>
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