RE: RMVDIR ... RMVLNK not working

I find it easy to use QSH for such things: QSH CMD('rm -r 
/dir/subdir/dir_I_want_to_delete') 

From the QShell reference:

rm - Remove directory entries
Synopsis
rm [-f | -i] [-dPRr] file ...
Description
The rm utility attempts to remove the non-directory type files specified on the 
command line. If the
permissions of the file do not permit writing, and the standard input device is 
a terminal, the user is
prompted (on standard error) for confirmation.
The rm utility removes symbolic links, not the files referenced by the links.
It is an error to attempt to remove the files ″.″ and ″..″.
Options
-d Attempt to remove directories as well as other types of files.
-f Attempt to remove the files without prompting for confirmation, regardless 
of the file’s permissions.
If the file does not exist, do not display a diagnostic message or modify the 
exit status to reflect an
error. The -f option overrides any previous -i options.
-i Request confirmation before attempting to remove each file, regardless of 
the file’s permissions, or
whether or not the standard input device is a terminal. If the response from 
the standard input
begins with the first character for the YES response in the current locale, the 
file is removed. The
-i option overrides any previous -f options.
-P Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are overwritten three 
times, first with the byte
pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.
-R Attempt to remove the file hierarchy rooted in each file argument. The -R 
option implies the -d
option. If the -i option is specified, the user is prompted for confirmation 
before each directory’s
contents are processed (as well as before the attempt is made to remove the 
directory). If the user
does not respond affirmatively, the file hierarchy rooted in that directory is 
skipped.
-r Equivalent to -R.
Exit Status
v 0 if all of the named files or file hierarchies were removed, or if the -f 
option was specified and all of the
existing files or file hierarchies were removed.
v >0 if an error occurs.

John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 8:27 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: RMVDIR ... RMVLNK not working

Jon Paris wrote:

Have a situation where RMVDIR ... RMVLNK(*YES) is not working and 
issuing 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
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