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

[Mike James <mpjames53@gmail.com>]

This is one answer, but maybe not the one you were after. "These are not the droids you seek." When you do "ls -la" you'll see two additional directories at the top of the listing "." and ".." The single dot "." refers to the present working directory ("pwd") and so the path starting with "./*" always starts in the current directory. I suppose if you have cd'd into the directory where you intend to do the deletion, then the results of both commands will be the same ("rm -f ./*" vs. "rm -f *")

Mike

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org> wrote:

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
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> ls *.tmp
> rm *.tmp
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> I still agree that aliasing rm for root is a smart idea.
> I should do that.
> No, I _will_ do that.  Now.
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> Eric
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> 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.
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>> 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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