On 18/11/10 17:02, Brian R Masterman wrote:
On 18/11/10 12:00, [email protected] wrote:
The command I put in was rm -rf ~/ .shotwell/Examples
You are not alone, we had a UNIX administrator do a;
chown -R .* username
Only to discover that it had changed all the above directories and then
down.
I did that once.
The fact that .* matches .. as well as everything else is definitely a
Trap For Young Players, and might even be considered a design flaw.
Running a command on everything in parent directories -- especially when
it's doing things recursively -- as well as sub-directories is rarely
what you'd expect or want.
cheers
Chris
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