[GRLUG] RM *

[Mike Williams]

I used to cancel and think about it some more back in DOS, even if I was 
sure, when it said "ARE YOU SURE?"


On 05/17/2012 01:44 PM, Steve Romanow wrote:
> I have myself trained to pause, a sometimes emabrassingly long pause 
> when I am doing an rm.  I hope to never take it for granted.
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:14 PM, John Wesorick <john at wesorick.com 
> <mailto:john at wesorick.com>> wrote:
>
>     @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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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