Re: [PLUG] toy story2 nearly lost with rm*

[Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org>]

How is './*' different from '*?'

-morgan


On May 22, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:

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> Years ago I developed the habit of typing ./ in front of file and directory names - PARTICULARLY those in an rm command.
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> rm -rf ./*
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>   is just fine when the PWD is /home/eric/projectX/temporary_files
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> Sometimes I will execute an ls command first to see that I'm deleting
> the files I *think* I am.  Then, press the up arrow, cursor to the front of
> the line and replace ls with rm
> 
> ls *.tmp
> rm *.tmp
> 
> I still agree that aliasing rm for root is a smart idea.
> I should do that.
> No, I _will_ do that.  Now.
> 
> Eric
> 
> On 05/22/2012 02:45 PM, drew craig wrote:
>> Hi all, I brought this little story up in our meeting last evening.  The link goes to Linux Today.
>> 
>> pixars toy story2 nearly lost because of a linux command <http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/pixars-toy-story-2-was-nearly-lost-because-of-a-linux-command.html>
>> 
>> -- /drew/
>> 
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