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

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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Ummm, ahhhh  Ok...
I'm at a loss to explain this.

I *thought* that anchoring the path to the present working directory somehow helped
prevent awful mistakes but now that you ask I find I"m at a loss to explain why.
The command rm -rf ./* is just as bad as rm -rf *  if the PWD is /  - no help.

I think it's a habit from somewhere around 1993-1995 when I took my first UNIX course.
Re-evaluating.....

Thanks,
Eric

On 05/22/2012 05:40 PM, Morgan Jones wrote:
> How is './*' different from '*?'
> 
> -morgan
> 
> 
> On May 22, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
> 
> Years ago I developed the habit of typing ./ in front of file and directory names - PARTICULARLY those in an rm command.
> 
> rm -rf ./*
> 
> is just fine when the PWD is /home/eric/projectX/temporary_files
> 
> 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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