[GRLUG] RM *

[John Wesorick]

@Mike - I'm glad modern *nixes make that assumption. I've done that several
times without thinking about it, but it makes sense that it would have had
that behavior.

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com>wrote:

> A similar story, which fortunately is not repeatable on modern flavors of
> *nix, is this one. I guy needs to wipe a directory, so he types rm * or so,
> but leaves all the hidden files: anything starting with a period. So he
> type rm -rf .* to get rid of them. On Unix of the day, that wildcard is
> evaluated literally and includes .<anything>, including .. the parent
> directory. Which it "descends" into and recursively removes everything
> there, working its way up to the root! Fortunately, modern machines assume
> that if you type rm .* you really mean rm .?* (or whatever it is).
>
>
> On 05/17/2012 12:26 PM, Adam M. Erickson wrote:
>
>> Thanks Casey, I just shared this with a new Linux Admin/DBA I had the
>> pleasure of training.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Adam M. Erickson
>>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Casey DuBois<casey at grlug.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone ever use RM * when they shouldn't have?
>>> It's been done:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=EL_g0tyaIeE&feature=player_**embedded<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_g0tyaIeE&feature=player_embedded>
>>>
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