On Thursday 12 August 2010 05:07 PM, Akilan R wrote:
But this happens only when the directory is empty. How did the files inside
the directory got deleted? is there some kind of alias that replaced 'rm'
with 'rm -r' in your system?
I was giving an example when someone asked how can deleting a link
deletes the actual folder. Not a working code. apologies. Obviously,
yes- sudo is not required always
yes- -r is required to delete a non-empty directory. And,
yes- adding a star at the end will delete the contents and won't delete
the directory
yes- if you try it in your system, it might not behave as expected.
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