On Tuesday 16 December 2003 22:52, Andrew Farmer wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:46:51 -0800, Yrjö Hatakka muttered: > > Viestissä Maanantai 15. Joulukuuta 2003 01:24, Oliver Lange kirjoitti: > > > you may well delete /var/tmp/portage/* as long as you're not currently > > > emerging some software. For example: > > > > > > rm -R /var/tmp/portage/* > > > > Don't do this! > > > > do : > > cd /var/tmp/portage/ > > rm -R * > > > > or disaster awaits > > What's the difference?
You could accidently type "rm -R /var/tmp/portage/ *" (notice the space) and delete the current directory as well. Or even worse if you type a space after any of the slashes wiping out your / or /var or /var/tmp. Cheers, Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
