Re: RMVDIR ... RMVLNK not working

[Bryan Dietz <BDietz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This may be similar to a problem us the recursive delete in EDTF.

It seems as though it will not delete the files with a .(dot) as the first
character like .profile or such.


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Bryan Dietz
Aktion Associates

"i want an i"




midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/31/2006 09:27:04 AM:

-> Jon Paris wrote:
-> > Have a situation where RMVDIR ... RMVLNK(*YES) is not working
andissuing an
-> > error to the effect that directory is not empty - which RMVLNK is
supposed
-> > to take care of.
->
-> Yeah, that's never worked as far as I know ... we had to implement our
-> own recursive rmvlnk program (using C api's called from CL to walk the
-> tree).
->
-> A lot of the IFS commands seems to have problems with IFS space, but the
-> error reporting is next to useless.
->
-> david