On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:33:55AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:04:18 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > > Note that: > > > > rm -rf /home/* won't get rid of those pesky dot files > > > > rm -rf /home/.* gets rid of a little bit too much... > > > > > > Doh! Yeah, you're right. Forgot that many tools ignore hidden files > > > with no option to *not* ignore hidden files. > > > The option's certainly there, at least if bash is your shell. 'shopt -s > > dotglob' (which won't cause * to include . and ..); 'shopt -u dotglob' > > turns it back off. > > Wait, whoa, sorry I missed this earlier but why does someone think that rm > -rf dir/* will miss . files?
Certainly dotfiles in subdirectories will be included. > Unless those files are in /home. Why would there be . files in /home? > Shouldn't /home only contain directories? Well, indeed, although I have been known to have a /home/.system directory in the past that contained stuff I'd moved from other filesystems due to a lack of disk space in the right places. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]