Deleting a .app in Terminal

If your account is not an administrator account then the problem could be that you simply don't have permission to remove the application.

And, it might help if you posted what you tried to do and what the error was.

However, assuming you do have permission to delete the app, the problem may be that most applications in OS X are actually folders containing the executable and supporting files. In order to "rm" a folder from Terminal you'll have to use the -R option to recursively delete the folder and all it's enclosed files.

rm -R /path/to/SomeApp.app

Be very careful using the -R option with rm. If you get the path wrong you could end up deleting way more than you expected... and there's not an "undo" option with rm.

Steve

Can you explain exactely what r-xr-xr-x is. Is it like the equivalent of permissions set at 777?
555, actually.
The first result you get if you Google for "unix permissions" might be a good read.
Quote:
<code>Every permission bit in a triplet corresponds to a value: 4 for r, 2 for w, 1 for x.</code>
It's like, totally binary, dude.

A lot of the times when you get the "override" message it's because the file is locked. And even if you say "y" the file may still not be deleted.

That would explain why you're now getting a "Directory not empty" message (unless you tried to use "rmdir" which I believe will only work with empty directories).

You can use a recursive call to chflags to unlock any locked files in the directory like this:

chflags -R nouchg ~/Documents/G2gui.app

Then try the rm command again.

Steve