Mplayer Frustrations - Getting Closer

[Phil Schaffner]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 17:34 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> Picking a nit for safety.
> 
> One should never ever say
> 
>     rm -rf /anything
> 
> If one were to make any of a number of mistakes, such as accidentally
> pressing RETURN or SPACE after any of the /'s, there will terrible
> damage
> done.  Instead, cd into the desired containing directory and then rm -
> rf
> name, no leading /.
> 
>     cd /usr/lib
>     rm -rf win32

Also may want to check the contents of win32 first.  With my
installation of w32codec RPM that's where they all live in the first
place.

> 
> If this gets screwed up, the damage is confined to a much smaller part
> of
> the system.

Good advice in general.

Phil