Messages in this thread | | | From | Ben Kosse <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.131: some quality thoughts | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:46:11 -0800 |
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> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > Why > Because a lot of people do a recursive find on the word core and delete it > to keep their filesystem clean without checking for file type.
So what?
[benkos@sptnet01 benkos]$ mkdir core [benkos@sptnet01 benkos]$ rm -f core rm: core: is a directory [benkos@sptnet01 benkos]$ ls GNUstep core downloads lookatthis nsmail testfile Xrootenv.0 database intranet mail readthis
Note that core doesn't go away.
Why are they being so stupid as to do "rm -rf" instead of "rm -f"? "rm -f" will blow away core files but not core directories. Of course, blindly deleting anything is stupid anyway. -- Ben Kosse bkosse@thecreek.com PC Support Analyst Coldwater Creek Inc. (208) 265-7114
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