On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Hi,
Off-topic, but I struck an oddity trying to help a friend using Ubuntu
send a wayward Firefox back to un-munged condition. I laboriously gave
him instructions over the phone to type in:
rm -rfd .cache/mozilla/firefox
Only to have it chuck a hissy fit and claim the options were invalid.
I tried changing the r option to R, with no further success. My quick
search for on-line man pages for Unbuntu didn't show anything different
than the options that would work in Fedora.
Surely it should have worked? My tests with a mocked up directory
structure on my Fedora installation worked without a hitch.
I did check he was in the right place, to begin with, by getting him to
first enter in:
ls .cache/mozilla/firefox
Peruse the results, then change the command at the beginning of the
line.
In the end I went through another set of laborious instructions to see
the hidden files in his file browser, and make his was through to the
right path.
It wasn't helped by his (very) old Ubuntu installation having no menus,
so had to figure out how to open a terminal without being able to see
what he was doing, likewise for where they'd stashed the file browser.
Hi Tim;
Please make certain which "rm" is being used. Try "/bin/rm" to
make
sure that it is not an alias problem or a path problem.
HIH,
Ken