On 06/11/2013 09:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/11/2013 05:29 PM, Tim wrote:
Agreed. However, it can be argued that if you know enough to do that,
you should also know enough to be careful with rm. As root, unless I'm
deleting exactly one file, I use ls first to see exactly what I'm going
to delete. It's a form of "measure twice, cut once" that's prevented at
least one disaster over the years. (N.B.: once you've examined the
results of ls, the safest way to use rm is to use the up arrow to get
back the preceding command line, then edit it. That's probably the best
way to be sure that what you delete is what you listed.)
I find that when you are going to perform some kind of action on a file,
and you have found it using ls -la, highlight the file and ctrl-shift-c.
Then whetever your command is, command ctrl-shift-v.
That's a better option than command filename-without-last-part* because
there may be two or more identical first part filenames, but different
extensions. The most obvious is filename and filename.bak. Another
common example is a filename with two or more version numbers in the
extensions.
--doug
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