[Swlug] Mint difficulties

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 11:58, DrBillBass via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> I didn't put a space after the /, but I did, as advised, put a full stop before config

There should be a dot after the / as the purpose is to remove the
folder Slack in the folder .config.  A similar effect would be seen if
there were a space after the ~ or after the dot.  Not sure what would
happen if you put a comma instead of dot.  I can see no way the the
command as posted would cause the problem you are seeing.

Colin

>
> Anyway, I've cleared a lot of junk from the hard drive and perhaps this might be an opportunity to stall a much larger drive and more RAM before restoring from the backup.
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> Thank you once again
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> Bill Thomson
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> On 19 Mar 2020 11:30, Dave Hodgkinson via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> >
> > rm -rf is even more dangerous when used with sudo, I am not even going to type the full command but if one were trying to remove /etc/somefolder for example did sudo rm followed / etc/somefolder (with an accidental space after the /) then that would erase the whole disc partition.
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> This may or may not have happened.
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