[ALUG] Removing unwanted files

Richard Lewis richardlewis at fastmail.co.uk
Mon Feb 5 17:04:41 GMT 2007


On Monday 05 February 2007 16:49, Richard Lewis wrote:
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:12, Barry Chater wrote:
>
> barry2006 at barry2006-laptop:~$ sudo rm pavcl_linux.tgz
>
I hope you spotted the deliberate "mistake" here: after the cd command, the 
prompt will, of course, change to show the present working directory as root:

barry2006 at barry2006-laptop:~$ cd /
barry2006 at barry2006-laptop:/$ sudo rm pavcl_linux.tgz

R.
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