Re: undo rm -rf *

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Am 30.03.2013 04:18, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
> Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 26.03.2013 21:08, schrieb Rick Stevens:
>>> On 03/26/2013 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald issued this missive:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 26.03.2013 18:03, schrieb Matthew Saltzman:
>>>>>> 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: '..'
>>>>>
>>>>> Does this not depend on where in the tree you are and what permissions
>>>>> you have on . and ..?
>>>>
>>>> how many more permissions will you have than root?
>>>
>>> "rm" and "rmdir" take care to not delete "." or "..". "rm" also requires
>>> the "-f" along with "-r" to delete non-empty directories. You don't
>>> want to delete your current directory (".") and you sure don't want to
>>> delete its parent ("..")
>>
>> and you don't as proven above
>>
> I hate to say it, but I don't want to ever have to trust that the rm I'm getting is the one I expect and not some
> alias, function, thing earlier on a PATH,

i hate to say it, but i know how to do my job and control aliases and PATH
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[harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat .bash_profile
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
  . ~/.bashrc
fi
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/home/harry/bin:/scripts
unset USERNAME
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[harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat .bashrc
# .bashrc
PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
 . /etc/bashrc
fi
if [ -f /usr/local/etc/bash_profile ]; then
 . /usr/local/etc/bash_profile
fi
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/home/harry/bin:/scripts
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[harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /usr/local/etc/bash_profile | grep rm
alias rm='/usr/bin/rm -I --one-file-system'

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