On 18/11/10 12:00, [email protected] wrote:
The command I put in was  rm -rf  ~/ .shotwell/Examples

You are not alone, we had a UNIX administrator do a;
chown -R .* username

Only to discover that it had changed all the above directories and then down.

Whereas they should have typed;

chown -R .[a-z]* username

The saying comes to mind, measure twice, cut once.

Brian M.

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