On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 17:34 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > Picking a nit for safety. > > One should never ever say > > rm -rf /anything > > If one were to make any of a number of mistakes, such as accidentally > pressing RETURN or SPACE after any of the /'s, there will terrible > damage > done. Instead, cd into the desired containing directory and then rm - > rf > name, no leading /. > > cd /usr/lib > rm -rf win32 Also may want to check the contents of win32 first. With my installation of w32codec RPM that's where they all live in the first place. > > If this gets screwed up, the damage is confined to a much smaller part > of > the system. Good advice in general. Phil
