[Asterisk-Users] * CVS checkout does not work on one box -solved now

[Peer Oliver schmidt]

Dan schrieb:

> Hi,
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven Critchfield" <critch at basesys.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] * CVS checkout does not work on one
> box -solved now
> 
> 
> ..
> 
>>It doesn't have to do with the directory, just the fact that the
>>.version file wasn't removed with your commands above, and it is only
>>created by the make file if it doesn't exist. So you did not purge the
>>directory like you thought you did.
> 
> The strange thing is that after the rm -r -f command, if:
> ls -l ./asterisk
> shows me an empty directory, so (apperently) the .version file was deleted
> too

Any UNIX file with a . as the first character is a hidden file. Next 
time, if you really want to delete the directory, do just that by

rm -fr ./asterisk


if you want to see all the hidden files, do

ls .* -l

hth
rgds
pos