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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Removing files Post 302737059 by Scott on Wednesday 28th of November 2012 10:29:25 AM
Old 11-28-2012
The problem is you're being very vague. i.e. "It doesn't appear to work" is not helpful to as we have no idea what "it" was.

Give some examples or the command(s) you are running, and ls output, so we can see what you are doing.
 

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