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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children) 
find / -name mysterytool -exec rm {} \;
[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

rm $(which mysterytool)?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

What if that returns just an alias?

But really the best way would be first to try one's distro manager to uninstall/purge the package. Unless it was just manually installed by the user.

Oh, maybe that's it! It only exists in ~/bin, and OP is having a psychotic break, is just now finding out about their split personality!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Use +; \; is for peasants.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Y u no -delete