[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: how do I delete not empty directories



On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 01:23:20PM -0800, Britton wrote:
> Good point.  It's actually a dangerous thing to do period.  It's not a
> question of if you will one day trash crucial stuff, it's when.  I
> reccoment you make up a ~/recycle directory or something like it and then
> use mv -R whatever ~/tmp.

Possibly a dangerous suggestion. If you get used to having a system where
files are not really deleted, then one day you'll use another system,
rm -rf something and it's really gone.


Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt, hamish@debian.org, hamish@rising.com.au, hmoffatt@mail.com
Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5
CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.   http://hamish.home.ml.org


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org


Reply to: