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Old 09-09-2004
Question stupid question!?
fedora core 2 xx8. 5xx version (not sure! not sure how to look it up either..(except on boot sorry!!))..
Smilie the linux version I started on last year was an old redhet 6.0 version with only text mode.. back then for some reason I knew I how to get rid of whole directories without a) going through the verbose which seems to be automatic on this version.. and also I seemed to know how to force the rm /dir with a -f I think.. right now rmdir -R (r ) isn't working and rm -f or -i isn't working .. so I have to move whole directories of about 2-300 files to the trash and stupidly I have never used trash on unix before and don't know how to empty it.. I tried the graphical user interface trash (empty button) still won't do it.. i can't get rid of these directories and I can't empty the trash..
would appreciate any input from anyone thanx moxx68Smilie
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Old 09-09-2004
Be careful..make sure you know that youre deleting the correct directory tree...

rm -rf dirname
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Old 09-09-2004
version (not sure! not sure how to look it up either..(except on boot sorry!!))..


"uname" is the command for that. uname -r will give you the kernel version.
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Old 09-10-2004
Computer will try!!!
Smilie thanks for the input ....
thanx moxxx68.Smilie
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Old 09-10-2004
Computer worked perfectly....
thanx for your input dangral, and jody
it worked just fine..
i tried the uname -r and this is the version i got 268-1.521...
i guess that worked too but I am not sure what that is supposed to stand for other than the version of the softwareSmilie
thanx moxxx68
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Old 09-10-2004
Do:
uname -a

And read up on the use of it:
man uname
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Old 09-10-2004
Bug thanx..
thanx moxxx68Smilie
 
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