On 9/9/14, Stefan Olsson <stur...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I came across an interesting article on wildcards in shell: > http://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards_Gone_Wild.txt > > > Tested some of the above in pdksh on a current OpenBSD-host: > $ mkdir test > $ cd test > $ touch file1 file2 file3 "-rf" > $ mkdir DIR1 DIR2 > $ ls -al > total 16 > -rw-r--r-- 1 sturban sturban 0 Sep 10 04:26 -rf > drwxr-xr-x 4 sturban sturban 512 Sep 10 04:26 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 10 sturban sturban 1024 Sep 10 04:25 ../ > drwxr-xr-x 2 sturban sturban 512 Sep 10 04:26 DIR1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 sturban sturban 512 Sep 10 04:26 DIR2/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 sturban sturban 0 Sep 10 04:26 file1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 sturban sturban 0 Sep 10 04:26 file2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 sturban sturban 0 Sep 10 04:26 file3 > $ rm * > $ ls -al > total 8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 sturban sturban 0 Sep 10 04:26 -rf > drwxr-xr-x 2 sturban sturban 512 Sep 10 04:26 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 10 sturban sturban 1024 Sep 10 04:25 ../
$ touch file1 file2 file3 "-rf" $ mkdir DIR1 DIR2 $ ls -al total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 sidster wheel 0 Sep 9 21:19 -rf drwxr-xr-x 4 sidster wheel 512 Sep 9 21:19 ./ drwxrwxrwt 8 root wheel 1024 Sep 9 21:19 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 sidster wheel 512 Sep 9 21:19 DIR1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 sidster wheel 512 Sep 9 21:19 DIR2/ -rw-r--r-- 1 sidster wheel 0 Sep 9 21:19 file1 -rw-r--r-- 1 sidster wheel 0 Sep 9 21:19 file2 -rw-r--r-- 1 sidster wheel 0 Sep 9 21:19 file3 $ rm ./* rm: ./DIR1: is a directory rm: ./DIR2: is a directory noir $ ls -al total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 sidster wheel 512 Sep 9 21:20 ./ drwxrwxrwt 8 root wheel 1024 Sep 9 21:19 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 sidster wheel 512 Sep 9 21:19 DIR1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 sidster wheel 512 Sep 9 21:19 DIR2/ be smarter than that. --patrick
