[Lazarus] Theoretical question about future of Lazarus

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Thu Oct 15 23:17:37 CEST 2015


Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:13:19 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd
> <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> $ sudo mv old_directory_name new_directory_name
> 
> I did:
> sudo mv /usr/local/share/lazarus /usr/local/share/lazarus_old
> 
>> $ sudo rm -r directory_name
>>
>> or even
>>
>> $ sudo rm -rf directory_name
> What is the difference?

f

I think you've worked out things like  man rm  but at the risk of 
wandering too far off topic: it's the  force  option, which particularly 
if run by root can cause a lot of trouble.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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