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From: ber@enea.UUCP (Bjorn Eriksen)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs,net.unix
Subject: Problem with patch and infinit directories
Message-ID: <792@enea.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 20:23:30 EST
Article-I.D.: enea.792
Posted: Thu Jan 10 20:23:30 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 02:16:41 EST
Reply-To: ber@enea.UUCP (Bjorn Eriksen)
Organization: ENEA DATA, Sweden
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I just used 'patch' on a diff but didn't notice that the diff referred
to subdirectories that I didn't have. Patch creates a subdirectory .orig
and somehow it started to create them recursivly, .orig/.orig/.orig/...,
until I guess a "filname too long" error. The problem is now how do I
get rid of .orig without redo the filesystem? A "rm -rf .orig" fails.
This is 4.2BSD.

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	Bjorn Eriksen
	ENEA DATA Sweden

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