On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 04:46:19PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Handle this with great care!! > > If you can remove it in the gui, do so. > > That would be safest. > > If you cannot, then look up the man page on rm, and make > sure that the -i flag works. > > -i stands for inquire, and should ask you for each file that > it wants to remove whether to remove it or not. > > When you are absolutely certain that you trust the -i flag, > and have tested it somewhere, then go to the directory > where the offending file is, and type: > (CAUTION) /bin/rm -i * > > Then it will ask you for each file, and you type n for > all of them except the one with the mangled name. > > (I would also wait an hour first, in case somebody > has a less scary alternative that they post.) > > (Note: i may sound ridiculous talking about caution here, > but i remember years ago deleting a huge amount of > work because i was removing without checking very well.) >
It's always wise to alias "rm" to "rm -i" in your shell. Also learned the hard way, when the combination of a killer headache and time pressure caused me to delete a bunch of things years ago... There's a file manager called worker which is rather handy for this sort of thing, too --very fast and light, uses only xlibs. -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120502001519.GC22104@radhesyama
