Re: Deleting a folder from the IFS

I'm sorry if I am giving confusing information. It stems from my ignorance.

The file type is '*TYPE1' or '*TYPE2'

I tried your suggestion below and it comes back with:

find: 001-0018 Error found running command attr/filename.typ
No such path or directory

Where filename.typ are the files into directory. There is a message for each file.

I appreciate your help with this problem.

Albert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Deleting a folder from the IFS
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:07:45 -0500


Albert,

I have Qshell but when I try to rm the directory it tells me the
files are read only and won't delete them.

It's unclear from your description whether this means that the files
have the PC read-only flag set? (that's for compatibility with MS-DOS,
and I haven't seen anyone use it in a long time) or whether it means
that you only have read-authority (and therefore insufficient authority
to delete the objects)

You could try turning the PC read-only flag off. From QShell, the
following command should turn off the PC read-only flag on all files in
a directory:

find /path/to/myfolder -exec attr {} PC_READ_ONLY=0 \;

You could then delete them use rm -rf as before.

If it's an authority problem, you'll have to use an account with more
authority (not much I can do about that!)
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