Sami Dalouche wrote: > > I've made a script : > > while true > do > mkdir 1 > cd 1 > done > > and executed in my /tmp directory > so I've ????? thousands of subdirectories > > When I do > rm -rf 1, it say > 1/1/1..../1 Directory not empty" for the last directory ! > 1/1/...1/directory not empty and for each directory the same." > 1/...1/ directory not empty"... > > How to delete the folders ? > Any Idea > Well, the first thing that I would do is to use Midnight Commander (mc) and delete them. If they are all empty, you should not even get prompted. just select the top directory and hit your f-8 key. -- Brian Howe Unix geek in training. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
