Re: [Bug-tar] GNU Tar 1.28 configuration test for deep directory hierarchy failing on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan

[Charles Diza]

FWIW, I hackily was able to remove the tree.  There seems to be something about the name "confdir-14B---", but I could be wrong about this.  I wrote a ruby script that descends the tree, renaming the Nth dir to "aN".  After this, I found that (a) the tree seems to stop at the 379th level, and (b) if I just cd about 30 or so levels down, "rm -rf a*" will remove everything below, then I can cd back to the top of the tree and remove the whole thing.