> The basic idea I was toying around with is to create a delete/uninstall > program that would take the output of slocate and iterate through that > deleting all of the files associated with the program I wanted to > uninstall without having to do so manually. Using tar balled source code > does not seem to allow for an easy and straight forward way of > uninstalling once the source directory has been deleted. I am also going > to explore how to do this using bash and some basic shell programming > and then work out which would be the better approach.
Why not: slocate <name>|xargs rm -rf Vinay _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor