On 09/07/2012 06:02 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > The thing is, by doing rm -rf on ., I am not trying to remove . or .. > I'm trying to remove the files in it. > > Other wise there is no way to specify, using "rm" to delete the contents > of a directory but not the directory itself.
Yes there is, and Paul already told it to you: rm -rf * .[!.] .??* > > I just want to "clean" out a directory -- I don't want to try to delete the > directory itself. Then use the triple-glob. This is portable to both POSIX and to the old implementations we have been discussing. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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