Re: CPFA0AC - Which file systems support RMVLNK(*YES) -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: CPFA0AC - Which file systems support RMVLNK(*YES)
From: John Ross <jross-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:32:08 -0500
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Learned something new today. EDTF (since V4R4) has an option 9=Recursive Delete but I assume you want it in a CL or some program so intead of writing your own use the DELTREE from IFSTOOL http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.nsf/0/3976fed8ab10134b862568b60071ccd3?OpenDocument

John Ross


David Gibbs wrote:

I need some IFS workfiles  - some of which may have identical names
but different content, so I place them in different directories.
When finished an easy way to clean up is a generic DEL with
RMVLNK(*YES), but at least in /tmp and /home I get CPFA0AC ".. the
file system does not support removing existing links."
Is there any existing file system that supports this?
This was asked a while ago ... but no answer was ever posted.
Anyone know if it's possible to make the RMVDIR command work with RMVLNK(*YES)?

I don't want to depend on having QSHELL available ... nor do I really want to have to write a program that will traverse the directory tree, removing each individual file.

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