What the hell are these dirs?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Friday 24 July 2009 08:50 PM, g wrote:
> Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Friday 24 July 2009 08:03 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm assuming the dirs are full of thousands of files.  So, how do I get
>>> rid of them?
>> Those are most probably cached files which never got deleted after you
>> closed your browser. rm -f should take care of it.
>
> if user is in directory "/home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin' and he is
> looking at *directories*, he has to use 'rm -fR *' to remove subdirectories
> and their content.
>
> see 'man rm'.
>

Oops! missed that -R.

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