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Originally posted by rubicon
I would much rather use sudo than enable the root user as I've seen suggested by some people (not necessarily at TFP).
Like Windows' Registry Editor, use sudo sparingly and with some prudence.
By avoiding use of the wildcard (ie: *) you'll avoid deleting more than you intended to.
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Good advice. Also worth noteing the ~/ in Jerry's example above is a unix shortcut that means "path to your home folder".