[wplug] removing directories

[Luquilla Hughes]

Larry, I think everybody else answered your question pretty well. And the 
distro was very important information in this case thanks for including it. 
I just wanted to add that (IIRC about 18 months ago) Linuxgazette had a 
segment in the answer guys or my 2 cents where they had a BASH script which 
would alias the rm command to "mv * /tmp/$user" and then remove the files 
from the temp directory after a specified period of time. It sort of worked 
like a "trashcan" as known on Apple Macintosh(r) products or "the recycle 
bin" as the idea was stolen and renamed by Microsoft. Sorry but I can not 
recall the issue and never bothered to implement it myself so if you are 
really interested you would have to search for it. unless anybody else 
remembers this particular items location?





>From: "Weber, Larry A" <laweber at switch.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: "'wplug at wplug.org'" <wplug at wplug.org>
>Subject: [wplug] removing directories
>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:56:15 -0400
>
>The process of building and installing new programs or libraries usually
>involves the creation of many temporary directories.  Is there an easy way
>to delete these directories after I complete the installation. (Something
>like windows, deltree).
>
>As root I have tried rmdir and rm -d,  neither of which will remove a
>directory containing a file.  rm -r works but prompts me before deleting
>every file.  I also noticed that rm asks me to confirm every delete.  I
>thought it would only do that with the -i option.
>
>I have found a file titled 'core' in my home directory and another in my
>/root directory, different dates and sizes.  They are large files 2 to 8
>meg.  I don't know what created them.  Can they be removed?
>
>(Distro is RH7.1)
>
>-laweber
>
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