Issues with rm and rmdir

[Mark Phillips]

Michael,

ls -a in .git returns
. ..    (a period and a double period)

I had tried this before, and assumed the .git directory was empty.

Arkadiusz,

rm --help returns

user at localhost:~/python-projects$ rm --help
Usage: rm [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Remove (unlink) the FILE(s).

  -f, --force           ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt
  -i                    prompt before every removal
  -I                    prompt once before removing more than three files,
or
                          when removing recursively; less intrusive than -i,
                          while still giving protection against most
mistakes
      --interactive[=WHEN]  prompt according to WHEN: never, once (-I), or
                          always (-i); without WHEN, prompt always
      --one-file-system  when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any
                          directory that is on a file system different from
                          that of the corresponding command line argument
      --no-preserve-root  do not treat '/' specially
      --preserve-root   do not remove '/' (default)
  *-r, -R, --recursive   remove directories and their contents recursively*
  -d, --dir             remove empty directories
  -v, --verbose         explain what is being done
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

By default, rm does not remove directories.  *Use the --recursive (-r or
-R)*
*option to remove each listed directory, too, along with all of its
contents.*

busybox | head -1 returns

BusyBox v1.27.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.27.2-2ubuntu3) multi-call binary.

rm -rf foo, rm -rf foo/.git and inside of foo/ rm -rf .git all yield the
same error message - .git is not empty. However, as I mentioned above, ls
-a in foo/.git shows that .git is empty.

git is installed in my busybox, which is why I tried git rm foo/ and git rm
foo/.git, and inside foo/ git rm .git. All returned the same error message.

Any other suggestions for removing my 'foo' directory would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!

Mark

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 4:13 AM, Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz at drabczyk.org>
wrote:

> On 2018-09-10, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> > I have busybox running Ubuntu on a Samsung tablet (
> https://userland.tech/).
> > I have git setup to retrieve some of my code repositories. I tried a git
> > clone with an typo in the name of the repository, so none of the code was
> > downloaded, but git did create a directory foo with a .git directory
> > underneath it. I managed to download the correct repository after fixing
> > the typo.
> >
> > However, I cannot remove the directory foo. I have tried
> >
> > rm -r -f -d foo/
>
> Busybox rm has no -d.  Didn't you get `rm: invalid option -- 'd''
> error?  If you didn't you might not use busybox.  Try `busybox rm -r
> -f -d foo' and you should get the error.
>
> > rmdir foo/
>
> It won't work.  Both GNU coreutils and busybox implementations of
> rmdir will remove target directory only if it's empty.  It's also
> specified by POSIX:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/rmdir.html
>
> > git rm -rf foo/
>
> git is not a busybox command.
>
> > I even tried sudo rm.... and that did not work.
> >
> > The error message in all cases is
> > rm: cannot remove 'foo'/.git: Directory is not empty.
> >
> > However, there is nothing in the foo/.git directory.
>
> Do you try to remove foo or foo/.git?
>
> > I tried the all same commands on foo/.git, with the same results.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> Probably yes.  The -d you used with rm is probably unneeded.  Try:
>
> rm -rf foo
>
> --
> Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz at drabczyk.org>
>
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