close 12339 stop (triaging old bugs)
Hello, This long and winding thread covers several topics relating to rm(1), historical unix and POSIX compatibility (and a bugfix or two in the mix). An enlightening read for those interested... ( https://bugs.gnu.org/12339 ) But the bottom line is: rm -rf . will not delete the content of the current directory (while keeping the directory itself) and that is not likely to change. Two suggested alternatives: find . -delete rm -rf * .[!.] .??* As such, and with no more comments in 6 years, I'm closing this bug. PLEASE do not reply to this thread. If there are other relevant issues (that have not been discussed elsewhere, and have not been previously rejected), please start a new thread by emailing coreut...@gnu.org . regards, - assaf
