D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> cd / ; rm -fr *.exe D> D> This command will remove all files ending in ".exe" from the entire D> filesystem.
No, it won't. It will find all files and directories in the root directory whose names end in ".exe" and completely and permanently remove them. 'find', as other people suggested, is a better tool for this. HANDY HINT: 'rm' is a pretty dangerous command, since there's no recovering from it. I like to type 'echo *.exe', which will print a list of file names. I check that those are the files I want, and then press up-arrow to get the previous command back and replace the 'echo' with 'rm -rf'. This makes sure that I don't accidentally kill anything I didn't mean to. (ObVi: okay, so I actually type 'ESC k c e rm -rf', but that's only because I like to set my shell to run in vi-emulation mode. Same net effect.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
