Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Everything gone! | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 19 Mar 2003 18:12:29 +0100 |
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Le mer 19/03/2003 à 17:51, Eli Carter a écrit : > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Le mer 19/03/2003 à 17:04, Matthias Schniedermeyer a écrit : > > > > > >>rm -rf * > >>Should do the same(*) but with much better speed. > >> > >>Normaly the system should lockup at sometime while doing it. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>*: OK. The version above will "break" in the middle after "/bin/rm" (or > >>"/lib/libc.so.6") got deleted. > > > > > > That would be surprising. Did you actually try it ? :) > > The complex version that you snipped would break because it invokes rm > for each file. The simpler version he gave would not break at that > point because it is already running. Hence the footnote ton the word > 'same'.
Aah, yes; I read a bit too fast. *hides*
Xav
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