help with command line deletion

José Pedro Sousa do Amaral zpamaral at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 02:40:54 PDT 2007


Em 17/04/2007, às 10:03, David Herren escreveu:

<snip>
> locate .indelible-info returns an enormously long list. I imagine  
> piping locate to some form of rm -R is the way to go, but the  
> potentially disastrous results of my misuse of that lead me here  
> for consultation...

For testing purposes, go to a directory with said folder and issue at  
the terminal the command:

find ./ -name ".indelible-info" -delete

If it works (I just tested it and it worked for me), try:

sudo find / -name ".indelible-info" -delete

Be careful. I hope that this helps. Cordially,
ZP
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José Pedro Sousa do Amaral

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