02-21-2008
Thanks Guys! Got it taken care of and I use rmdir ./-_12 and were able to removed it. Can also use cd ./-_12 to get in as well. What really surprise me though is that I was able to create that directory via the script but can't do it on the command line!
Awesome Forum to be a part of!!! Again, thanks for all your effort!
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rmdir
rmdir(2) System Calls rmdir(2)
NAME
rmdir - remove a directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int rmdir(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The rmdir() function removes the directory named by the path name pointed to by path. The directory must not have any entries other than
"." and "..".
If the directory's link count becomes zero and no process has the directory open, the space occupied by the directory is freed and the
directory is no longer accessible. If one or more processes have the directory open when the last link is removed, the "." and ".."
entries, if present, are removed before rmdir() returns and no new entries may be created in the directory, but the directory is not
removed until all references to the directory have been closed.
Upon successful completion rmdir() marks for update the st_ctime and st_mtime fields of the parent directory.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned, errno is set to indicate the error, and the named directory is not
changed.
ERRORS
The rmdir() function will fail if:
EACCES Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix and {PRIV_FILE_DAC_SEARCH} is not asserted in the effective
set of the calling process
Write permission is denied on the directory containing the directory to be removed and {PRIV_FILE_DAC_WRITE} is not
asserted.
The parent directory has the S_ISVTX variable set, is not owned by the user, and {PRIV_FILE_OWNER} is not asserted.
The directory is not owned by the user and is not writable by the user.
EBUSY The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.
EEXIST The directory contains entries other than those for "." and "..".
EFAULT The path argument points to an illegal address.
EINVAL The directory to be removed is the current directory, or the final component of path is ".".
EILSEQ The path argument includes non-UTF8 characters and the file system accepts only file names where all characters are part of
the UTF-8 character codeset.
EIO An I/O error occurred while accessing the file system.
ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating path.
ENAMETOOLONG The length of the path argument exceeds PATH_MAX, or the length of a path component exceeds NAME_MAX while _POSIX_NO_TRUNC
is in effect.
ENOENT The named directory does not exist or is the null pathname.
ENOLINK The path argument points to a remote machine, and the connection to that machine is no longer active.
ENOTDIR A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
EROFS The directory entry to be removed is part of a read-only file system.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Async-Signal-Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mkdir(1), rm(1), mkdir(2), attributes(5), privileges(5), standards(5)
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