Bo Berglund wrote:
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:13:19 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<[email protected]> wrote:

$ sudo mv old_directory_name new_directory_name

I did:
sudo mv /usr/local/share/lazarus /usr/local/share/lazarus_old

$ sudo rm -r directory_name

or even

$ sudo rm -rf directory_name
What is the difference?

f

I think you've worked out things like man rm but at the risk of wandering too far off topic: it's the force option, which particularly if run by root can cause a lot of trouble.

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