From: Christoph <swap@...> (news_chr)
Date: 2003-10-09T04:50:14+09:00
Subject: Re: ...and deleting directories?

Christoph wrote:

....
> >
> E:\Ruby\Scripts>ruby -r fileutils -e "FileUtils.rm_rf('directory')"
> E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:583:in `rmdir': Permission denied -
> directory (Errno::EACCES)
>         from E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:583:in `remove_dir'
>         from E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:534:in `rm_r'
>         from E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:526:in `each'
>         from E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:526:in `rm_r'
>         from E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:550:in `rm_rf'
>         from -e:1

It looks like that a recursive version of Chris Morris's
``File.chmod(0644, file)'' hint should do the trick - i.e.

ruby -r fileutils -e "File.chmod(0644,
'directory');FileUtils.rmdir('directory')"

works fine.


/Christoph