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."

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