On 19Jan2018 19:18, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Off-topic, but I struck an oddity trying to help a friend using Ubuntu
send a wayward Firefox back to un-munged condition. I laboriously gave
him instructions over the phone to type in:
rm -rfd .cache/mozilla/firefox
Only to have it chuck a hissy fit and claim the options were invalid.
I tried changing the r option to R, with no further success. My quick
search for on-line man pages for Unbuntu didn't show anything different
than the options that would work in Fedora.
[...]
It wasn't helped by his (very) old Ubuntu installation having no menus,
so had to figure out how to open a terminal without being able to see
what he was doing, likewise for where they'd stashed the file browser.
Please make certain which "rm" is being used. Try "/bin/rm" to make
sure that it is not an alias problem or a path problem.
Also: "which rm" should show what executable is being used, and the bash
"which" IIRC also shows if an alias or function is involved (I'm a zsh person
myself).
"( set -x; rm ........ )" is a useful debugging command (spawn subshell, turn
on tracing, run command). It should show things as they are _after_ any alias
expansion.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> (formerly cs@xxxxxxxxxx)
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