Reindl Harald wrote:
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: '..'
For ease of typing usually:
rm .[a-z]*
will do, or if paranoid:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname .\* -exec rm "{}" \;
which avoids directories because you (usually) didn't mean that.
--
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"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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