recursive directory

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Fri May 13 20:47:52 UTC 2005


On Friday 13 May 2005 02:16 pm, Lokrin wrote:
> I have a directory that contains one directory and one file. The problem
> is that somehow it is recursive.  I go into it and it contains it's own
> directory.  Go into that and you get the same thing.  The TREE commands
> keeps going.  RM -RF keeps going.  Under Konqueror, trying to delete the
> directory give a status bar and it reaches up to around 15,000 folders
> at less then 1% done before it freezes.
>
> The directoy is not linked in any fashion.  How can I get rid of it?

I had this problem on a system myself. If I recall correctly
from Xterm, kterm, etc.

rm -fr

But I am not sure
-- 
John H Ludwig

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