Jim Meyering wrote: > Could you be thinking of some other rm? > Coreutils' rm has rejected that for a long time: > ... > POSIX requires rm to reject any attempt to delete an explicitly specified > "." or ".." argument (or any argument whose last component is one of those):
Hmm... Wow. I decided to check HP-UX 11.11, a now rather old release from twelve years ago in 2000, the oldest easily available to me, and got this: $ /usr/bin/rm -rf . rm: cannot remove .. or . So I guess GNU coreutils is in good company with traditional Unix systems! It has definitely been that way for a long time. Bob
