[Novalug] removing file

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sun, 3/21/10, Nino Pereira <pereira at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> You can also do it the radical way:

No, you should *NEVER* ...

> make a new directory, (temp), move all the files into that
> directory and go there too
> mv * temp
> cd temp
> copy all the files you want to keep back into the previous
> directory, but not the offending file, and then nuke the whole
> directory with
> rm -rf *

*NEVER* do this.  I can*NOT* recommend this practice as I've
*NEVER* seen it "good practice" to use a recursive remove to
delete a select set of files.  Regulate recursive removes to
cases where you want a tree completely obliterated, not things
like this.

Sorry, just feel that strongly about it.

> Come to think of it, do you see the file in a GUI file
> browser? Can't you click on the file in the GUI and remove
> it that way?

Agreed.

And if you don't have X running, then consider Midnight
Commander (mc) instead.  It works like Norton Commander and
I always install it on my Linux systems.