On 06/12/2013 01:54 PM, John Austin wrote: > On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:22 -0400, Doug wrote: >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. >> --A.M.Greeley > > Tip from this list I think > > If using "su -" regularly > add this to /root/.bashrc to obtain the root prompt in red > > PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] " > > John > That is a good tip ...but probably not for the colour-blind ;-) Thanks. -- Regards, Rejy M Cyriac (rmc) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
