On 09/16/2017 06:23 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > For consistency's sake, I feel like I need to point out that I > suggested a similar change to "rm" (check to make sure $HOME was not a > target) and one of the arguments against such a check was that the > file operations necessary to do so would take too much time.
It seems quite likely that the user forgot to quote the multiplier "*" argument. And expr is terminating anyway, so the extra check would just be executed once. Have a nice day, Berny