On Thursday 25 December 2003 16:09, Paul wrote:
On 12/25/2003 04:43 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote:
Well, I never do a general ./*
I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt.
I once deleted the content of one whole directory, and since then I never did this stupid * stuff ;-) .
That is _the_ way to learn... My way was the same way, except it was my $HOME. With subdirs... *grin* That is also when my paranoia with backups paid off! Paul
Allow me to quote the legendary Civileme :
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rm -r /whateverdirectoryname/and/path -f
the -r is for recursive (i. e. descend into subdirectories) and the -f is for force without asking, While
rm -rf /whateverdirectoryname/and/path
will work to the same effect, it is considered bad form. Imagine that you type this far
rm -rf /
and then the household cat launches for your desktop and plops a fat paw on the enter key. Your entire filesystem(s) are bye-bye, even /mnt/windows_c if you happen to have one and it is writeable.
True - never understimate the power of cats, children and spouses. and never type "su" when you've had a few.
Sir Robin
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