On 01/22/2012 11:00, [email protected] wrote:
> On 12.01.2012 15:52, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>> chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr
>>>> rm -rf /usr/obj/usr
>>
>> It's much faster to do:
>>
>> /bin/rm -rf ${obj}/* 2> /dev/null || /bin/chflags -R 0 ${obj}/* &&
>> /bin/rm -rf ${obj}/*
>
> If I could just add one thing here, for those who might be tempted
> to immediately cut and paste that elegant command line:
>
> Consider, how does that command evaluate if the shell variable "obj"
> is not set, and you're running that literal string as root?
It wasn't intended that anyone actually do what you're considering. I
assumed that our users are smart enough to know that they have to
substitute the actual value of /usr/obj.
Doug
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