Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 08:03 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: <snip> >> [ranbir@ranbir plugin]$ pwd >> /home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin >> >> [ranbir@ranbir plugin]$ ls -l >> total 523808 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 99831808 2009-07-24 22:43 gnome-mplayeraabsvy >> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 107634688 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayercwgvib >> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 29638656 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerjjkyiv >> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 101244928 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerkaotaa >> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 99209216 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerrkujaa >> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 98258944 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerxnyieu >> >> >> I don't know how they were created. So I decided to delete them, but >> they don't actually get deleted. If I try an "ls", my HD grinds away >> without printing any output to the screen. >> >> I'm assuming the dirs are full of thousands of files. So, how do I get >> rid of them? > > Those are most probably cached files which never got deleted after you > closed your browser. rm -f should take care of it. if user is in directory "/home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin' and he is looking at *directories*, he has to use 'rm -fR *' to remove subdirectories and their content. see 'man rm'. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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