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rm -r partial failure

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From: Graham Lawrence <gl00637 <at> gmail.com>
To: 9950 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9950: rm -r partial failure
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 07:52:40 -0700

By my understanding of rm -r the files listed by find below should
have been removed by the first rm.  But it took only some of them.
Vim was not running during this process.

~ $pwd
/home/g
~ $find /home -name *swp
/home/g/.vim/config.swp
/home/g/.vim/Notes.swp
/home/g/.vim/nzb.sh.swp
/home/g/.vim/makesess.vim.swp
/home/g/.vim/backup.sh.swp
/home/g/.vim/.vimrc.swp
/home/g/.vim/.bashrc.swp
/home/g/.vim/renamer.sh.swp
/home/g/.vim/vimcht.swp
/home/g/.vim/grepnotes.sh.swp
/home/g/Scripts/.reseq.awk.swp
/home/g/.fluxbox/.menu.swp
~ $rm -rf *.swp
~ $find /home -name *swp
/home/g/.vim/Notes.swp
/home/g/.vim/backup.sh.swp
/home/g/.vim/.vimrc.swp
/home/g/Scripts/.reseq.awk.swp
/home/g/.fluxbox/.menu.swp
~ $rm -rf *swp
~ $find /home -name *swp
/home/g/.vim/Notes.swp
/home/g/.vim/backup.sh.swp
/home/g/.vim/.vimrc.swp
/home/g/Scripts/.reseq.awk.swp
/home/g/.fluxbox/.menu.swp
~ $rm -f /home/g/.vim/Notes.swp
~ $rm /home/g/.vim/backup.sh.swp
~ $rm /home/g/.vim/.vimrc.swp
~ $rm /home/g/Scripts/.reseq.awk.swp
~ $rm /home/g/.fluxbox/.menu.swp
~ $find /home -name *swp
~ $

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