Nope, don't need to be a newbie at all... just careless :( I've since gotten into the habit of doing it rm -Rf /explicit/path/to/start/ It helps... some. But this is by far the nastiest command to have to use in all of Unix. Bill Ward who spent a week in December rebuilding an O2K after another sysadmin cd'ed the directory I was working in to check on something, then let me come back to give the command to clean out that tree we needed to prune... if I'd checked one last time before doing it, I wouldn't have lost that time. -----Original Message----- From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Removing Dir Paul Anderson wrote: > A note to the rm -Rf command, it removes everything and one should be > careful to do a 'pwd' to make sure you are IN the directory you want to You don't have to be a newbie to screw up with this one. : ) Be really careful. Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
