Problem with patch and infinit directories

Bjorn Eriksen ber at enea.UUCP
Fri Jan 11 11:23:30 AEST 1985


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
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