guys... as a face saving process... always test what ever you're going to do when using RM <<< and then substitute ls for rm to see what the results would be... and finally, before you do a "rm" .. make sure you have a complete backup that you can restore from, in the event you really do trash something up! jus' sayin! On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Bill Oliver <vendor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but > you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What > about a simple script something like this? This is off the top of my > head and not tested (so certainly has a bug or two), but it seems that > you could check with something like this: > > #!/bin/sh > > echo "check?" > > read ANS > > if [ $ANS = "y" ] > > then > > ls -laR $1 | more > > echo "continue?" > > read ANS2 > > if [ $ANS2 = "y" ] > > then > > rm -fr $1 > > fi > else > > rm -fr $1 > > fi > > Of course there are two problems with big deletions. If you use more, it > would get boring hitting the space bar a zillion times, and if you don't, > then you won't see the files... > > billo > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Celik wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 22:23:29 +1100, >> Celik <celik.n.00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my >> current >> working directory. Any tips for undoing such an error? >> >> >> I've done worse. I once did rm -rf .* to try to remove some config files >> in a home directory. I forgot that .* >> matched .. and deleted a lot of stuff I didn't want to. >> >> >> Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative >> solution to using "rm -rf"? >> "rm -i" is good as it prompts before deletion however it becomes tedious >> if there are a lot of files to be deleted, >> hence "rm -rf" seems ideal but dangerous if not cautious :( >> Had a look on google, there was one particular recommendation that caught >> me attention (sorry I don't have the link). It >> was recommended to mv the files (and/or folders) to be deleted into a tmp >> directory. I'm planning to try that in my >> future code, we'll see how things go. >> >> Regards, >> C >> > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
