Bob Proulx wrote (Monday, September 03, 2012 9:51 AM) > 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.
Seconded! SunOS 5.9: $ rm -rf . $ rm -r . rm of . is not allowed Have a nice day, Berny
