bug#22031: Bug in rm command

Steps to get the error: >cd ~ >mkdir some_directory >cd some_directory >vi ~ "enter some text" then Press :wq! >rm -rf ./* Your home directory gets deleted. Thanks and regards, Sneha Barsha Mishra

bug#22031: Bug in rm command

Why are you vi ~ (the home directory file?  If you delete the file, you delete the home directory.  Regards  Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada From: Sneha Mishra To: 22...@debbugs.gnu.org Sent: Friday, November 27, 2015 9:03 AM

bug#22031: Bug in rm command

tag 22031 notabug close 22031 stop Hello, On 11/27/2015 09:03 AM, Sneha Mishra wrote: Steps to get the error: >cd ~ >mkdir some_directory >cd some_directory >vi ~ "enter some text" then Press :wq! >rm -rf ./* Your home directory gets deleted. I am not able to reproduce such

bug#22001: Is it possible to tab separate concatenated files?

Hi, On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:28:13PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/26/2015 04:52 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > >> Because every plain > >> text line in a file must be terminated with a newline. > > > >That's only a recent POSIX definition. It's not related to > > real life. When I