From: cfajohnson@gmail.com   
      
   On 2013-03-14, Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:   
   > I.m using SeaMonkey Internet Suite as my Browser/E-mail agent, and, to   
   > give the developers a bit of a hand, I'm using the Beta versions.   
   > SeaMonkey tries to release a new version every six weeks, and, for each   
   > release, there can be several Beta's with-in each six-week period.   
      
      I unpack them in my home directory and move the hierarchy with a   
      name that includes the version number, e.g. /opt/firefox-19.01,   
      then link that to /opt/firefox which is called by the firefox   
      script.   
      
   > This means I seem to be forever installing a new version of SeaMonkey,   
   > and, to save any cross-contamination between versions, before installing   
   > the new Beta's, I want to completely remove the old version, effectively   
   > deleting the directory that SeaMonkey and all its sub-directories are in.   
   >   
   > In Linux (as root), I seem to be issuing lots of rm *.*'s   
      
     Why do you only want to remove files with names containing a dot?   
      
   > and hitting "Y" heaps with the occasional rd (directory). Back in   
   > DOS or Win3/95/98, I'd probably have just entered something like   
   > "Del *.*" and "job done".   
   >   
   > Is there something like this for Linux??   
      
     At the top of your ~/.bashrc put 'unalias -a' to get rid of the   
     stupid aliases that some distros install.   
      
   --   
      Chris F.A. Johnson,    
      Author:   
      Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)   
      Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)