On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 17:21:28 +0100, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
and how yoill you remove all hidden files of a folder?
For cases where I just want dot files/dirs removed I use '.??*'. That only hits names at least three characters long.
this is safe since a very long time [root@testserver:/tmp]$ LANG=c; /usr/bin/rm -rf .* /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '.' /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '..'
That's an improvement. I hadn't tested doing an rm -rf of .. for about 10 years. That version of rm starting decsending .. before doing any check for whether .. should be removed.
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