[X-Unix] Re: Unlinking a file... illegal characters?

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Sat Feb 26 15:00:38 PST 2005


On Feb 26, 2005, at 3:23 pm, Eric F Crist wrote:
>
> I know I'm coming into this kinda late, but have you tried, from the 
> containing directory of legoland:
>
> /Volumes/CLEARLIGHT/foo/ # rm -rf ./legoland
>
> This will delete the entire directory, and it's contents.

Unfortunately it won't. I _did_ try that already, and posted the 
results.

   $ rm -rf /Volumes/CLEARLIGHT/foo/legoland
   rm: /Volumes/CLEARLIGHT/foo/legoland/èÿÿÿvk␀␀..␀␀: 
File name too long
   rm: /Volumes/CLEARLIGHT/foo/legoland: Directory not empty
   $

Stroller.



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