[ALUG] Removing unwanted files

Chris & Barry Chater ourpost at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Feb 5 17:42:58 GMT 2007



Richard Lewis wrote:
> 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:
No, I should have gone to specsavers :-D
>  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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