How do I delete Unix scripts in /usr/local/bin/

Yes.

You may need to elevate your privileges to root, so prepend the command with "sudo" and enter your account password when prompted.

sudo rm mpg*

A better way to remove all traces of a program that uses Apple's Installer is to see if the Installer left a receipt here:

/Library/Receipts/<program name>.pkg

If so, then you can read its Bill Of Materials to see all the files that got installed. In Terminal

lsbom <program name>.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom

Can just do rm mpg* from Terminal?

Almost. You'd need to cd into /usr/local/bin first, otherwise that command would remove any file that matches mpg* in the current directory.

The only other caveat may be permissions - you might need to elevate your permissions before you're allowed to remove those files. A simple sudo should suffice:

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo rm mpg*

I don't even HAVE a /usr/local/bin folder on either of my Leopard installs. One install does have a /usr/local folder, but everything in it was installed by the latest version of Privoxy, the other install doesn't have a /usr/local folder at all. So you won't mess up anything from the system. Whether you'll mess up some third party something or other you have installed only you can know. I suspect they probably don't take up much room, you could check that. If the amount of space consumed is trivial, you could just leave them.
Francine


Francine
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The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. As Francine says, it is not present in the standard OS X distribution. Removing these files should do no harm.