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