Am 26.03.2013 17:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > 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 '.*' and how yoill you remove all hidden files of a folder? 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: '..'
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