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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