Re: Duplicate accounts?

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On 02/28/2011 06:54 PM, Steve Ellis wrote:
> On 2/28/2011 3:23 PM, Larry Brower wrote:
>>
>> I would say this all depends on the application being invoked and would
>> still say it is bad to just use * as opposed to say ./*
>>
>> I can't count the number of people Ive seen do things like rm -rf * in a
>> directory and it recursively started working on / and /bin  etc...
> Not to be a pest, but if you worry about '*' expanding to include 
> dotfiles, then why do you think that './*' is safe?  Furthermore, '*' 
> expansion is handled by the shell, not the application--in other words, 
> dotglob rules the day.
> 
> The '*' there will just as well include dotfiles (i.e., it won't unless 
> dotglob is set as another poster indicated).  I definitely agree that 
> caution is warranted when using '*' in any command that can do horrible 
> things to your files, especially for things like 'rm -rf', but don't 
> travel under the misconception that './*' is going to save your 
> bacon--because it won't.
> 
> -se


./ explicitly specifies the CWD so what is your basis for saying it
wont? While I will admit there could be other factors at play for rm
recursively working on the systems Ive seen it happen on I can't say
with certainty that there was as files like /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc
were already removed by the time I had to work on the issue.
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