Delete

[Michael]

Richard A Downing FBCS CITP wrote:
> One of the things that I really hate about Windows is the Trash can.
> When I say delete, I want it gone - forever.  On windows I can set it up
> so that delete means delete.  How do I do that with Ubuntu?
>
> Oh, and by the way, why is the 'empty the wastebasket' always greyed out
> in the panel, and only available when the application is open?
>
> And why does the documentation call it Trash, but the application calls
> it wastebasket?
>
> Thanks,
> R.
>
>
>   
You should use the terminal and rm command.
rm file for deleting a file and rm -r dir for directories. You can also 
give wildcard with '*' operator.


Good luck!

-- 
Michael
michael.f123 at gmail.com