Re: RMVLNK - extension-only files

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Surprised RMVDIR doesn't work...

RMVLNK not working is apparently not unusual
http://serverfault.com/questions/256748/remove-all-files-not-working-with

Could you use QSH? The thread above suggests
ls -A | xargs rm -rf

Charles

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Kurt Anderson
<kurt.anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have an update process that needs to remove a folder on the IFS.  It first performs a RMVLNK  on a folder's contents by using the wildcard *.   This, however, is not removing a file that exists named .OLD (which we think is something created by a software vendor of ours).  Within the help of RMVHLP it says "An asterisk (*) matches any number of characters and a question mark (?)matches a single character."
>
> I tried using *.* but that didn't pick up the .OLD file either.  What does work is .* however that also tries (but fails) to delete the folders . and ..
>
> After removing the contents of the folder, we're doing RMVDIR.   I did try RMVDIR with RMVLNK(*YES) instead, but that didn't work to empty out the folder.
>
> Would it be safe enough for me to add in a RMVLNK command using .* ?
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt Anderson
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> CustomCall Data Systems
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