On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:11:54 +1100, Celik <celik.n.00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Try to be more careful, especially when there is an asterisk involved. And I keep in mind about '..', so no deleting '.*'.
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