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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Removing directories
Date: 17 May 1995 16:33:47 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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When trying to remove a directory using either rm -r or rmdir I get 
<dir_name>: is a directory

rm -r, however, removes all the directories on the lower level...

The system is FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE

Thank you,
	-mi
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