-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf
Of Matthew Crews
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 1:29 PM
To: Brien Dieterle; Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: rmdir
On 8/20/18 1:02 PM, Brien Dieterle wrote:
> That's still too dangerous. What I do is first chown the fol
On 8/20/18 1:02 PM, Brien Dieterle wrote:
> That's still too dangerous. What I do is first chown the folder to
> nobody user. Then sudo to nobody.
> Then I type out the full path to the folder, and use the arrow keys to
> move to the beginning of the line. Then I finally type rm - rf and hit
>
That's still too dangerous. What I do is first chown the folder to nobody
user. Then sudo to nobody.
Then I type out the full path to the folder, and use the arrow keys to move
to the beginning of the line. Then I finally type rm - rf and hit enter
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 12:16 PM Matthew Crews
Earlier I replied to Rusty's comment, but I ended up replying to him and
not the list.
Here's what I wrote.
Over the last 20 years i've read many horror stories of people running
rm -rf * in the root directory as root. Here's your sign people.
Here is Rusty's reply.
Yeah. I remember many
On 8/20/18 8:26 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
> Or, simply, rm -rf DIR, assuming you want to remove ‘DIR as well as
> anything in it (as I thought he said).
I always make it a point to include ./ so that I don't accidentally
delete something on root (even though rm -rf is supposed to prevent that.
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: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf
Of Anthony Radzykewycz
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 6:10 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: rmdir
rm-rf DIR/*. If that doesn’t remove all the files, then follow it up with rm-rf
DIR/.* Then run rmdir DIR.
On Mon
Glad to help. :-)
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 6:25 AM Michael wrote:
> thanks man!
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz <
> anthony.radzykew...@gatewaycc.edu> wrote:
>
>> rm-rf DIR/*. If that doesn’t remove all the files, then follow it up with
&
thanks man!
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz <
anthony.radzykew...@gatewaycc.edu> wrote:
> rm-rf DIR/*. If that doesn’t remove all the files, then follow it up with
> rm-rf DIR/.* Then run rmdir DIR.
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 6:07 AM Michael wrot
rm-rf DIR/*. If that doesn’t remove all the files, then follow it up with
rm-rf DIR/.* Then run rmdir DIR.
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 6:07 AM Michael wrote:
> I'm trying to remove a directory. How do you remove recusively with hidden
> directoreis in it?
>
> -
I'm trying to remove a directory. How do you remove recusively with hidden
directoreis in it?
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