Comments on: Humour: Funny Behaviour of rm Command

By: GI. Waters

GI. Waters — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

If you want to delete only the soft link and not the target directory, do this
rm -f windows
Dont put the ‘/’ after ‘windows’

If you want to delete the target directory then change to ‘/’ and delete it normally.

Try this — ‘file windows’ and ‘file windows/’

By: rockingatul

rockingatul — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Try this…this should work…

$chmod -R 755 windows

$rm -rf windows

if this works inform me…

By: kulbirsaini

kulbirsaini — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

@Rockingatul
It would be very kind of you if you would not tell that method to anyone else in your lifetime becuase people may kill you. If I might have tried that command, I would have lost my 120GB of data.

By: Pyrite

Pyrite — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

i see the word WINDOWS… so ill just assume you have to format and reinstall!