On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:24 am, ed tharp wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Monday 29 September 2003 10:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > > WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP > > > since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? > > > > > > Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null` > > > > > > ... /dev/null being in a different partition, i doubt it will > > > actually work, but what the hell.. > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > Damian > > > > Nice try, I believe I did get that suggestion before - here is the > > result: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ mv .Mail-old/ /dev/null > > mv: cannot overwrite non-directory `/dev/null' with directory > > `.Mail-old/' > > > > ditto as root. :-) > > have you considered this " mv .Mail-old/ /dev/null/"
or as Root "rm -rf .Mail-old" from the directory it is in. I am not aware of anything that an rm -rf won't get rid of. Just be sure you want to do it and that you specify exactly what you want to target. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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