[ILUG] count of files in a directory

[hrishy]

Hi stephane

i am on sunos..output of sundir test is
 
rmdir test
rmdir: directory "test": Directory not empty

regards
hrishy

--- Stephane Dudzinski <stephane at antefacto.com> wrote:
> The output has no hidden directories, this is what
> you get in an empty
> directory when doing a ls -la
> 
> what does return rmdir test
> 
> ?
> 
> What kind of linux flavour do you use ? Do you
> offenly check your fs ?
> 
> On 31 Jul 2001 08:57:18 +0100, hrishy wrote:
> > Hello stephane 
> > 
> > here is the output of 
> > rm -rf test
> > rm: Unable to remove directory test: File exists
> > 
> > regards
> > hrishy
> > 
> > -- lindenm at rte.ie wrote: > Did you try 
> > > rm -rf test 
> > > 
> > > What happens then?? 
> > > 
> > > Markus
> > > 
> > > Quoting hrishy <hrishys at yahoo.co.uk>:
> > > 
> > > > Hello
> > > > 
> > > > output of ls -la is 
> > > > jaquarROOT# cd test
> > > > jaquarROOT# ls -la
> > > > total 4
> > > > drwxrwxrwx   3 root     sys          512 Jul
> 31
> > > > 06:37
> > > >  .
> > > > drwxr-xr-x   3 root     other        512 Jul
> 31
> > > > 06:44
> > > > ..
> > > > 
> > > > how do i delete test???there two hiden folders
> .
> > > > and
> > > > ..
> > > > regards
> > > > hrishy
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --- Stephane Dudzinski
> <stephane at antefacto.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > 2 ways :
> > > > > 
> > > > > - Check if they do not contain any hidden
> file
> > > > > .xxxxxx by : ls -la test
> > > > > 
> > > > > - rm -rf <dirname> will wipe out everything,
> > > > careful
> > > > > with this one.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Steph
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 30 Jul 2001 12:02:01 +0100, hrishy wrote:
> > > > > >  Hello
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 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
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > regards
> > > > > > hrishy
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > >
> >
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