Spake Eric Jahn on Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 10:50AM -0400:
> On Wed June 23 2004 4:30 pm, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> > If you really want to link a dir, use this:
> > mount --bind olddir newdir
>
> mount --bind does the trick and is, in fact exactly what I was looking for.
> What amazes me about linux is you think you have a handle on the basics and
> then you find out about incredibly useful switches and commands that are
> never mentioned in any beginner books. sux - is another command that I find
> very useful and took me 3 years to learn about, after learning all that
> tedious xhost stuff. Anyway, when I was playing around with everyone's
> suggestions (while I was supposed to be working hard on something else), I
> accidentally created a directory (using lndir) that recursively links to a
> directory it is within. duh! Anway, I can't delete the recursively link
> directory becaus eit has contents (which are really just the link). I tried
> rm -d, as root but that didn't work. Probably because my distro doesn't
> support unlinking non-empty directories. Is there a way to delete this
> recursively linked directory? Thanks in advance!
rm -rf dir?
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