Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:

My failure mode is:

"rm -rf . something"


Why would you use "rm -rf . something"? (Honest question.) (I never use -rf at all.)

Because you really meant to:

"rm -rf .something"

but committed a thinko and typed:

"rm -rf . something"

If you don't use -rf, how do you recursively delete directories with read-only files in them?

-a


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