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The author has overlooked the reality of hidden dotfiles I learned very early in my UNIX experience two things on the same day: 1) Never do 'normal user' thin
by simonblack 3y ago
The author has overlooked the reality of hidden dotfiles
I learned very early in my UNIX experience two things on the same day:
1) Never do 'normal user' things as root
2) Removing a few dot-directories can be perilous.
I thought I'd clean up a bunch of dot-directories in the /tmp filesystem. It was getting a bit full. So I entered the simple command at the '#' prompt.
rm -fr .*
Wondered why it was taking a while.