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On Sunday 27 February 2005 9:39 pm, Julian Hall wrote:
Hi All, I'm trying to remove two directories in my home folder. Both eachhave 1 subfolder which is *empty* - at least ls shows no content in them. However they won't go away even when I use 'rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty'.
rm -rf or use the -v (verbose) option to rmdir. Also check ls -a to see if the directory really is empty.
Ideas gratefully received. BTW I think now I know why it's bad to install programs to/home
diskspace problems can affect any directory, the only thing against /home is that other users can't use the installed program. Sometimes this is intentional.
I think perhaps I'll reinstall Thunderbird and Firefox in /usr/bin (that is the right place isn't it?)
/usr/local/bin usually for stuff that you install without using a package manager.
BTW if I do reinstall them, can I cut a corner and just lob the whole folder for each into /usr/bin or is that bad? Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
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