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From: Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:11:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061020021142.GA5829@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5d1857a0610191341v66568fa5k38f9f545edbdb4be@mail.gmail.com>

061019 Stuart Howard wrote:
> I am now working on the --emptytree to restore everything properly.
> ps. tip of the day when spring cleaning your system watch out for
> those little typos that can ruin your summer :)
> pps. Just for fun it went something like this,
> "rm -rf /usr/lib/libcrco.so /usr/lib/ /usr/lib/bochs /usr/lib/libcroco.co.0"

When using 'rm -f' (with or without '-r') the iron rule is 

  (1) goto the dir which contains the items to be removed
  (2) 'pwd'
  (3) 'ls <whatever>'
  (4) if <whatever> is not '*', recall that line with Up-arrow,
      backspace over 'ls' & replace with 'rm -f'
  (5) sit on hands for  >= 10 sec  while examining the results of (2 3 4) 
  (6) & only then, 'rm -f <whatever>'.
  
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18 20:07 [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib Stuart Howard
2006-10-19 15:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-19 15:37 ` Mark
2006-10-19 19:29   ` Nico Schümann
2006-10-19 20:41     ` Stuart Howard
2006-10-20  2:11       ` Philip Webb [this message]
2006-10-20 13:36         ` Alan McKinnon

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