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Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories
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Ed Avis |
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Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Nov 2003 21:34:36 +0000 (GMT) |
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>> -F, --really-force
>>>> As --force but also change permissions if necessary.
>I looked into it a little, and am now even less enthusiastic. Doing
>it right would mean changes that are way too invasive. They'd have
>to handle failed chdir, opendir, readdir and retry after a chmod.
Well - that's one way to do it, the other way is to chmod every file
before doing anything with it. But that might be slow (I haven't
benchmarked).
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Ed Avis <address@hidden>
- rm -f and unexecutable directories, Ed Avis, 2003/11/07
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Jim Meyering, 2003/11/07
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Ed Avis, 2003/11/08
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Jim Meyering, 2003/11/08
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Ed Avis, 2003/11/08
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Bob Proulx, 2003/11/08
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Jim Meyering, 2003/11/08
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories,
Ed Avis <=
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Bob Proulx, 2003/11/08
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Ed Avis, 2003/11/09
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Ed Avis, 2003/11/08
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Bob Proulx, 2003/11/08
- Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories, Ed Avis, 2003/11/09