| Morgan Jones on 24 May 2012 05:43:07 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] toy story2 nearly lost with rm* |
Thanks, Eric. that's what I was curious about. I thought you might know a trick I was missing. -morgan On May 24, 2012, at 5:40 AM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >>> ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> > > - -- > # Eric Lucas > # > # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth > # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... > # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk++EAEACgkQ2sGpvXQrZ/5wGwCfQGp0r6NI+KqWKkxf/db1L4Pr > fV8AoJ58d16Sk4hzz63+HBAFri5g5HFP > =fBrL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug