Deleting directories in cr.openjdk.java.net (original) (raw)

Neil Richards neil.richards at ngmr.net
Fri Oct 28 05:04:04 PDT 2011

On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 20:35 -0700, Tim Bell wrote:

John spotted it:

> It works for me if you leave off the '~/', e.g.: > > rename foo .trash/foo > > The example in the guide doesn't use the '~/' (although the > descriptive text above it does). You are using sftp to access the cr.ojn server, and sftp has no concept of ~ meaning your home directory. I wrote the doc, so I'll try to clarify that section. Regards- Tim Bell

Hi Tim, Thanks for looking at this for me.

Unfortunately, leaving off the '~/' still didn't work for me.

It turned out I didn't have write permission to the .trash folder. (Why are the simplest answers sometimes the hardest to spot? doh!)

A little deft use of 'rmdir' and 'mkdir', and the problem was solved.

Thanks again, Neil

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