Re: [WinMac] (Lin) KDE 2.2.1 trash problem.
Subject: Re: [WinMac] (Lin) KDE 2.2.1 trash problem.
From: Brian Durant (durant[at]cbn.net.id)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 05:54:52 EDT
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 16:39, Michael Eilon wrote:
- 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.
Thanks Michael,
It worked without a hitch.
Brian
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