Hi, On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 19:12, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:01:17PM +0100, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: >> how about this one that I have actually performed myself: >> >> rm -rf .*
> Are you sure? Was this not Linux? "rm" on Linux doesn't recurse > through ..: > > $ cd /tmp/ > $ mkdir -vp foo/bar/baz > mkdir: created directory `foo' > mkdir: created directory `foo/bar' > mkdir: created directory `foo/bar/baz' > $ cd foo/bar/baz > $ rm -rv .* > rm: cannot remove directory `.' > rm: cannot remove directory `..' memory serves that it was on Ubuntu 10.04LTS. > Cheers, > Andy -- Regards, The Honeymonster aka Daniel Llewellyn -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
