Windows xp rmdir

New Post. Hi, From what I read from the PHP manual, chmod on a Windows platform should have no effect, and that seems totally normal unless someone on sourceforge has a windows port of that! I tried creating a subdirectory with the same name and without the chmod in a test script and everything went OK I then commented out the chmod line in my script, and now, directory creation and delete works fine! So, for PHP on windows xp home? Anyone got an explanation for this?

I'm intrigued! Cheers, Daniel. Follow Post Reply. Steven Musumeche. As I mentionned, as soon as I commented out the chdir on the directory that I made with the script x, script y could delete it. When I uncomment the chdir instruction and re-executed the script x, the directory delete with script y gives me permission denied messages If you want, I can post code Andy Hassall. A quick example for anyone who wants to try Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow.

Learn more. What's the fastest way to delete a large folder in Windows? Ask Question. Asked 13 years, 3 months ago. Active 1 year, 1 month ago. Viewed k times. BrezzaP BrezzaP 2, 3 3 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Also asked here at Super User: superuser. Maybe rm -rf in cygwin is faster, and maybe a linux live cd rm -rf is faster still.

Guys, i'm not sure if this is the same experience everyone else has Not sure why this works, but it does for me. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. JohnLBevan Hugo Hugo I needed to "Run As Administrator" to get this to work, depending on the drive. How about using Cygwin. I know it's a layer on top of Windows but can the linux world help us serving better?

Show 14 more comments. Simon Streicher 2, 1 1 gold badge 21 21 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Stephen Denne Stephen Denne Directories that are removed with the rmdir command cannot be recovered, nor can directories and their contents removed with the rm -r command. The rmdir command removes each and every directory specified in the command line only if these directories are empty.

So if the specified directory has some directories or files in it then this cannot be removed by rmdir command. You can use the bash cli to run rm command on windows. If you want to just use the rm command, you can easily use the bash and pass the arguments. The Linux ls command allows you to view a list of the files and folders in a given directory.