Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories

[Ed Avis]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jim Meyering wrote:

>>>>     -F, --really-force
>>>>             As --force but also change permissions if necessary.

>I looked into it a little, and am now even less enthusiastic. Doing
>it right would mean changes that are way too invasive. They'd have
>to handle failed chdir, opendir, readdir and retry after a chmod.

Well - that's one way to do it, the other way is to chmod every file
before doing anything with it.  But that might be slow (I haven't
benchmarked).

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Ed Avis <address@hidden>