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Re: Upgrading to Jessie



 Hi.

On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:48:33 +0300
softwatt <softwatt@gmx.com> wrote:

> Can't I just do an rm -f -r /home/<USER>/.*  to get rid of hidden
> config? Will they be recreated?
> 

Don't do this *ever*. It's not obvious, but your command will happily
remove /home/<USER>/.. , so everything in /home/<USER> will evaporate.

This is more-or-less safe approach:

rm -rf /home/<USER>/.[a-z0-9]*

Reco


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