Oliver Fuchs wrote:
Hi,
I had a directory which contained the following:
ls showed me simple this: "?" with 0 bytes
ls -axl showed me nothing
So I tried to delete the directory but could not succeed with "rm -R"
because the "directory is not empty". I changed to the directory and tried
to delete everything inside with "rm *" but also did not succeed. It seemed
that the file had no name. So than I did a mistake and wanted to delete the
file with no name with the operation:
rm -R //
This was a big mistake which I noticed soon enough (some files in /bin were
deleted). I could repair the damage but what I want to know is what exactly
is
rm -R //
deleting. It seems that it is deleting everything?
Thanx in advance
Oliver
When you have a filename that is odd, I use the syntax:
rm "whatever the file name is"
Enclosing it in "" works well for me.
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Best regards,
Chris
Forgive and remember.
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