recursive directory

[Dave Mitchell]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 08:11:45PM -0700, Lokrin wrote:
> I just checked.  No, they are not the same inode.  I think some program 
> got out of hand and just kept making them.

In that case you want a recursive delete that's not depth-first, eg

    #!/bin/sh
    while [ -d foo/foo ]; do mv foo/foo foo-; rmdir foo; mv foo- foo; done


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