I did not check the man page first to see if I needed -r or -R, and some commands need one and some need the other. chmod and chown for instance need it capitalized. That's another reason not to suggest using the rm command on a line that also has the asterisk on it somewhere <smile> Chuck On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:31:45AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Yes, that would work too. The only problem for me is so often, I do a > "rm -fr *" that I might give that suggestion to someone and forget to > include the *.orig; ooops, all his files would be gone:). > > I noticed you had a Cap R there instead of normal r. Is that > intentional? I thought lower case r is used for recursive deletes. > That's what I use all the time for my recursive deletes. > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:23:13PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > Steve, > > > > Why not cd to the linux source tree directory and do this: > > > > rm -R *.orig > > > > But I agree with Luke, actually. You are talking of a several hundred MB > > tree, and a very very small amount of space for the *.orig files. > > > > Chuck > > > > -- > > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (37% of Full) > > Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. > > But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (43% of Full) Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!
