Am 26.03.2013 17:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:11:54 +1100,
Celik <celik.n.00(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative
> solution to using "rm -rf"?
> "rm -i" is good as it prompts before deletion however it becomes tedious
if
> there are a lot of files to be deleted, hence "rm -rf" seems ideal but
> dangerous if not cautious :(
> Had a look on google, there was one particular recommendation that caught
> me attention (sorry I don't have the link). It was recommended to mv the
> files (and/or folders) to be deleted into a tmp directory. I'm planning to
> try that in my future code, we'll see how things go.
Try to be more careful, especially when there is an asterisk involved. And I keep in mind
about '..', so no
deleting '.*'
and how yoill you remove all hidden files of a folder?
this is safe since a very long time
[root@testserver:/tmp]$ LANG=c; /usr/bin/rm -rf .*
/usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '.'
/usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '..'