On Monday 30 July 2001 12:02, hrishy wrote:
> I have 2 folders called test and testd which are empty
> i wann adelete them but unable to do so as it is sayin
> that the folders are not empty whereas actually they
> are.if a create a dir called hrishy i am able to
> delete.i have root aceses to the system
'find test testd -ls' will show you what's in them.
'rm -rf test testd' will delete them and anything which is in them.
The manual pages would have told you this.
Colm
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