**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
May be you all noticed this thingrm
'rm' command is taking the file name as commandline options
see the listing of test directory having a file name called '-rvf'
[edp@edp0 test]$ ls -al
total 24
drwxrwxr-x 3 edp edp 4096 Jan 7 15:19 .
drwx------ 7 edp edp 4096 Jan 7 15:18 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 edp edp 1963 Jan 7 13:03 bios.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 edp edp 4268 Nov 15 2001 -rvf
drwxrwxr-x 2 edp edp 4096 Jan 7 15:19 test
[edp@edp0 test]$ rm *
removing `bios.txt'
removing all entries of directory `test'
removing the directory itself: `test'
[edp@edp0 test]$
its removed the directory itself by taking the option '-rvf'. except file '-rvf'.
regards
Benoy
-r recursive delete
-f force delete
as rm -rf deletes all the files including non-empty subdirectories
rm -- <files>
-- option means "interpret all that comes after -- as files ans
not as options/switches"
as in rm -- -rvf will remove the file -rvf
Hope that answers your query
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Vinayak Hegde
APGDST Student
NCST-JUHU
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