Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.

[prev] [thread] [next] [lurker] [Date index for 2006/12/18]

From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.
Date: 18:55 on 18 Dec 2006
> Exactly. Why aren't lsof(8) and fuser(1) the friends of rm(N)?

Because if we wanted deleting a file to run half a dozen unrelated
programs to give us a precise but misleading error message instead
of deleting the file we'd be running Windows instead of UNIX.

> And how and why do you people remember these /numbers/?

Same way you remember any small set of numbers. What's your street number,
postal code, and international dialing prefix?

> And what's the deal with the stupid man system,

It's not nearly hateful enough! We should have all our man pages in HTML
or INFO format so we can't find anything in them without asking google. That's
the ticket!
There's stuff above here

Generated at 03:01 on 20 Dec 2006 by mariachi 0.52