Re: [lug-nuts] stupid

From: Harry Souders (gnulinux@rosecomputing.com)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 08:53:08 PST


On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:40:40PM -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
>
> You could try moving everything you need in the directory to another one.
> Then removing the directory with a "rm -Rf dir/" command. Then recreate
> the directory.
>
> But their must be a better way. :-)

You might try:

rm -i *

The -i in rm stands for interactive and it will ask you if you want to
delete the file.

You might want to try Midnight Commander or another file utility and
delete that way.

I'm sure there are better ways. Anyone?
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