Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 11:31:09AM -0700, Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | > > Or my favorite:
> | > > rm -rf .*
> | > > thinking it will remove the current directory OR all the dotfiles in the
> | > > current directory ... and are root.
> | > I assume this will delete everything from the parent directory down? at least
>ls .* appears to return the .. dir as well. hmm pretty scary.
> | It will limb it's way back up the tree to /.
>
> It will not.
>
> | I've seen it.
>
> I'd give good odds you've misinterpreted some subtly different incantation,
> or been just below the root dir anyway.
What kind of odds are you giving? :)
I've seen it a few times.
> While we're bitching about rm, anyone know how to fix its prompting behaviour?
> On normal UNIXen the incantation
> rm blah
> will prompt for removal if you haven't write permission to blah as a sanity
> check. Naturally,
> rm -f blah
> doesn't ask.
>
> If I leave off the -f flag GNU rm seems to ask about _every_ bloody
Redhat alias. check the aliases, you'll find it aliase with -i.
>
> Does GNU rm
It isn't GNU, it's RH.
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