On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:04, Matthew Stapleton wrote: > The reason I asked is because I expanded a *.tar.gz file to look-at/build > and then decided I needed to erase the directory later....Thanks for the > warning....
Ok, well you can read a tar.gz file first with 'zless' you can then navigate thro' it with the search option which is '/' an example would be; zless foo.tar.gz /INSTALL Now you will see all instances of the word INSTALL, ctrl-l goes to the next instance. man less will explain. Another hint to remove dirs is go into the directory to be deleted, then use rm -rf * and or rm -rf .* then cd .. rmdir <foo> That way is a safer method but caution is the word. > > Matthew > -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
