On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Derek Balling <dr...@megacity.org> wrote:

> OK, I'm not going to pretend I understand at the "code" level how it
> happened.
>

Easy enough:  rm -r may not follow .., but the initial glob did, so you got
rm -r applied to every directory in "..".

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