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<Deleted>	<Deleted>	2003-10-23 17:57:43
RE: Newbies...	by ipv6	2000-09-16 15:01:16
RE: Newbies...	by Air Hadoken	2000-09-16 17:19:22
Don't take chances. cd into that dir before trying to delete anything, then you can rm -rf . ... Oh, but then there's the . and / key being next to each other. Probably the best idea is to write a del shell script that asks for confirmation first. ipv6 wrote: >I dread thinking about this...I shutter ever time I'm typing an rm -r /blah/blah command. All my partitions, all my -o rw -t nfs mounts, and anything else that happens to be mounted...GONE >Think about it, what if you accidentally put a space between the first / and the directory name? like: >rm -rf / tmp/kde* >You would free up a lot more disk space that you had originally planned to.
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