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Am Donnerstag, 25. Dezember 2003 16:37 schrieb robin:
typing something like "rm ./*"
Well, I never do a general ./*
I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt.
Actually I was thinking more of something like that - if I have a directory with a load of HTML files and JPGs and only want to get rid of the JPGs, then something like
rm -f *.jpg
is a blessing.
In the case I mentioned, my mistake of being in the wrong directory was compounded by the fact that the files I wanted to remove were all named something like ???efjh234, so I typed "rm -f ./?*", forgetting that "?" is also a regular expression! One of the most embarrassing moments of my computing life.
BTW, Civileme's implicit advice to put in the full path is very sound.
Sir Robin
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