-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Joshua Hudson on 12/26/2008 10:01 PM: > I would suggest an option kind of like -xdev to not cross mount points > and therefore prevent a lot of stupid disasters. > Kind of like rm -rf / is always a bad idea, rm -rf /tmp/* while > another filesystem is mounted in /tmp is always a bad idea. > > No, I haven't made that mistake myself yet.
Thanks for the report. However, GNU findutils already provides this ability: find /tmp -depth -xdev -delete It seems to me to be hard to justify adding extensions to rm when another tool can already do the desired filtering job. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklVxfgACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCWRQCeOhnKrD5WCzu70iNC3b9Po8zr nN4An0JEVdad6Wtqm5W1MGeolhAh/L9z =4SX7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
