Re: [WinMac] (Lin) KDE 2.2.1 trash problem.

Subject: Re: [WinMac] (Lin) KDE 2.2.1 trash problem.
From: Michael Eilon (mgeilon[at]cyllene.uwa.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 05:39:59 EDT

Hi Brian,

At 10:05 PM +0800 2/6/02, Brian Durant wrote:
>Any idea how I get rid of the /home/newuser/ directory, now that I don't need
>it anymore?

the "rm -r" command should do the job, but *please* be careful with it!
It's a very dangerous command, especailly when used as root, because the
"-r" switch means "recursive", so if you were to do something like

  rm -r /

you'd wipe your hard drive!

I suggest that whenever you use the "rm -r" command, you specify which
directory you want deleted in full, just to be safe. So,

   rm -r /home/newuser/

should do the job.

Cheers,

Michael Eilon
Assistant computer manager
Dept. of Physics
University of Western Australia

<mgeilon@cyllene.uwa.edu.au>

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