[Discuss] Strange rm behavior

[j.natowitz at rcn.com (Jerry Natowitz)]

I'd be looking at the login shell initialization that is not executed in the script.

A quick and dirty is to stick "set", "alias", and "env"  commands in the script and compare the outputs to those from your login shell.

My guess is some sort of globbing or nonomatch issue.

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>Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:03:45 -0400
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>Subject: [Discuss] Strange rm behavior  
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>I have a directory that is mounted from a NAS server
>/mnts/workspaces/foobar/project
>
>In my script, the code is:
>RM=/bin/rm
>cd /mnts/workspaces/foobar
>count=3
>while [ -d project ] && [count -gt 0];do
>    sleep 5  # there may be a process using a file. Wait for it to
>cleanup and exit
>    $RM -rf project
>    let count=$count-1
>done
>
>rm returns 0. buf fails to remove a couple of subdirectories.
>However all other subdirectories are successfully removed.
>if I execute the command '/bin/rm -rf project ' by hand it works fine.
>
>Also, I'm sure that no other process that affects this process is
>running in my test case.
>
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