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From: KevinGPO <kevingpo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:07:40 +0000 (UTC)
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> find . -type d | xargs chmod +w
> 

Hi guys, Thanks for your replies.

Igor, I tried find . -type d | xargs chmod +w
and then rm -Rf the main folder/directory. To no avail, it does not work :(((

Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> and then your 'rm -rf' command again.
> 	Igor





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