[Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Aug 21, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> tried the \rm -rf path (actually the directory "Portal") but I still get the Directory not empty response.  
> 
> This is a very deep directory structure!  Is there a limit that I somehow passed?


There is a limit for the length of paths you can pass to the kernel but the standard `rm` implementation avoids it by working with relative paths. Plus the limit is typically like 32k on modern systems, so it’s pretty hard to hit anyway.

	Zach

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