Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

On 10/2/24 23:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, gentoo. I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository. This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is $ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm . But for some reason, I typed $ find . '*.elc' | xa

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

-- Original Message -- From "Alan Mackenzie" To gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date 10.02.2024 16:56:25 Subject [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me! It could have been a lot worse. Boys and girls, don't use $ find | xargs rm unless you really know what you're doing. And

[gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

Hello, gentoo. I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository. This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is $ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm .. But for some reason, I typed $ find . '*.elc' | xargs rm .. I even carefully checked it befor

[gentoo-user] Media-sound/strawberry and external mass storage devices

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