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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:54:47 -0400
To: "Maloney, Michael" <mmaloney AT rsasecurity DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: rm problem: Directory not empty
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At 11:29 AM 9/12/2005, you wrote:

>I've seen a bunch of similar posts online but I don't see any fixes or
>resolutions. When ever I try to recursively delete a directory, I get
>the following error:
>
>$ rm -rfv endorsed
>removed `endorsed/xalan.jar'
>removed `endorsed/xercesImpl.jar'
>removed `endorsed/xmlParserAPIs.jar'
>rm: cannot remove directory `endorsed': Directory not empty
>
>I also tried the -d option and that didn't work either. In verbose, it
>says that the files in the directory have been deleted but they really
>are not.
>
>Any help?


Welcome to Windows.  Some other app has these files locked open.  You'll
need to find out what that app is and terminate it.  You may find "handle"
from <http://sysinternals.com/> helpful in finding this info.


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