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totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell

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Contributed by: Aperujutsu Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 05:29 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO

Really, it's a total waste to download this. To do exactly the same thing without all the unnecessary crap, copy paste this line at your shell prompt in Terminal. That is, open the application Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal, and paste the line, and type return.
rm -r ~/.dvdcss
You can even make an alias out of it.
For tcsh, paste this line, once, and you'll have the same function in a command called "rdc" from now on:
echo "alias rdc 'rm -r ~/.dvdcss'" >> ~/.tcshrc
You could use .cshrc instead of .tcshrc if you prefer.
For bash, use this line instead:
echo "alias rdc='rm -r ~/.dvdcss'" >> ~/.bashrc
Or, you can make a "shell command executable" (which you can double-click like a normal application) out of it:
In bash:
echo '#!/bin/sh' > rdc ; echo 'rm -r ~/.dvdcss' >> rdc ; chmod 755 rdc ; open .
Or in tcsh:
echo '#\!/bin/csh'>rdc ; echo 'rm -r ~/.dvdcss' >> rdc ; chmod 755 rdc ; open .
Either of those lines will make you a tiny file that you can double-click to delete the hidden directory .dvdcss in your home folder.
In any case, you can change the -r after rm into -ir to make the rm (remove) command ask before each item, if you want.   

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this works great - amonmatt

umm.. some of us are not computer geeks. ha.. just do it in the terminal? you must be really out of touch. This piece of software is obviously not written for you and you shouldn't be down on it. This worked great for me. A perfect piece of simple software.

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Sunday, July 31 2005 @ 10:25 PM PDT


this works great - Red 5

Without sounding redundant, sin sonar redundante, sans retentir redondant, 冗長に音響なし.

Not all of us speak Unixese.

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Saturday, November 12 2005 @ 07:16 PM PST


totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell - vkrejci

downloading and running this software: just a few clicks
reading and following your instructions.... no comment :-)
If I didn't have a mouse or trackpad, then, of course, I would reconsider your trick. Welcome back in the times before Macintosh.

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Thursday, December 29 2005 @ 06:28 PM PST


totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell - HiFiBliss

I for one appreciate the info. How simple do these retards want it? Let me try translating for them:

1. Start the application called Terminal, which comes pre-installed on your computer (look in your Applications folder for a folder called Utilities -- Terminal is in there.)

2. Copy and paste this line of text into Terminal:
rm -r ~/.dvdcss

3. Press return.

You're all done, and you didn't have to install any new programs. If the above instructions are *still* too complicated for you, try reading them sloooooooower.

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Wednesday, May 10 2006 @ 02:28 PM PDT


totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell - ungeziefer

Sorry, I agree with the other posters here -- you're missing the point of why someone made this script; it's because most Mac users never use the Terminal (thankfully we don't have to), and we would have no clue that we should type in that particluar command.

As far as making your own script, EVEN IF I already knew how to do it (as you obviously do, and thanks for sharing), I wouldn't do it. Why? Cause SOMEONE ALREADY HAS IT RIGHT HERE TO DOWNLOAD WITH ONE CLICK.

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Monday, December 04 2006 @ 02:14 PM PST


totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell - slodog_dotmac

Seems like using this app. would be easier than all the code typing you have there.

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Sunday, June 25 2006 @ 08:50 AM PDT


totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell - slodog_dotmac

Seems like using this app. would be easier than all the code typing you have there.

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Sunday, June 25 2006 @ 08:50 AM PDT


totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell - cinthiamac

HUH??? If I wanted to deal with all that - I'd buy a PC. Thanks to the author for a great little app.

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Wednesday, July 26 2006 @ 09:11 PM PDT


totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell - RayCon

It's a SCRIPT… and it's FREE… and the author thought enough to post it. What's the problem?

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Sunday, July 30 2006 @ 05:33 PM PDT


totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell - RayCon

It's a SCRIPT… and it's FREE… and the author thought enough to post it. What's the problem?

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Sunday, July 30 2006 @ 05:33 PM PDT


Deleting ripper log folder - johnnyangel

To simplify:

1. Open terminal

2. type or paste "rm -r ~/.dvdcss" (without the quotation marks) at the terminal prompt.

3. Hit "Return"

Is that all I need to do to delete the folder?

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Saturday, August 05 2006 @ 12:12 PM PDT


totally unnecessary; just paste one line in shell - Gennx30

Good God-youre making yourself out to be a command line GOD-write terminal commands for things of real importance-its hardly a big deal to install this, put it in your dock and click when needed.
Takes all of 1-2 second to do.
Ah,, you say-but if you add up all those 1-2 secs over a lifetime-you might save yourself a whopping 10 minutes of time!
Thats 10 minutes of wasted time you could be using to be on a date w/ Paris Hilton
sad.

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Friday, February 27 2009 @ 03:23 PM PST