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Similar to rm on cygwin, cannot unlink not owner, but for MINGW32. I tried chmod u+w path but this did not help.
user@computer /d
$ rm dir -d
rm: cannot unlink `dir': Not owner
user@computer /d
$ chmod u+w dir
user@computer /d
$ rm dir -d
rm: cannot unlink `dir': Not owner
csauve
Posted 2012-04-23T16:42:38.643
Reputation: 260
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super-user (root) is the only account able to use rm -d flag
From the rm man page
-d, --directory
unlink FILE, even if it is a non-empty directory (super-user
only; this works only if your system supports ‘unlink’ for
nonempty directories)
I don't think mingw supports su root or anything like it so using rm -d is unavailable.
Have you tried rm -rf /full/path/to/dir or (if empty) rmdir /full/path/to/dir ?
Jeremy W
Posted 2012-04-23T16:42:38.643
Reputation: 3 529
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I don't know mingw but on "real" *nix systems you need write access to the parent dir. You don't specify the permissions of "dir" or it's parent directory but I assume that is the problem here as well.
Bram
Posted 2012-04-23T16:42:38.643
Reputation: 582
For me, the permissions of the parent directory are drwxr-xr-x. I tried chmod 775 on the parent directory (which should result in drwxrwxr-x), but running ls -l again shows that the permissions did not change. If I run the chmod with the verbose flag, it claims that permissions were changed, but again, running ls -l shows that they were not. – Travis Northcutt – 2012-06-07T15:53:32.310
FYI On my machine I have full permissions in Windows for this folder. – csauve – 2012-06-07T18:40:38.457
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From the looks of it, it seems like you're trying to 'rm' a directory ("dir"). "rmdir" would rather do the trick.
Otherwise, other things that come to mind:
BlakBat
Posted 2012-04-23T16:42:38.643
Reputation: 1 038
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@tnorthcutt mingw does not support changes through chmod. The developers expect you to maintain permissions via Windows
– Jeremy W – 2012-06-13T17:33:15.467