On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:40:46AM +0200, J Wunsch said:
> Alexander Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ls | xargs rm -rf
>
> rm -rf /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david
If you're running as root, neither of those do the same thing
as
rm -rf /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david/*
What if that directory also has a few file called .dont_delete
in it ? You both just deleted it (note disclaimer about running
as root for the first one - the ls -A alias being the reason).
Ceri
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