Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Sep 26), Oliver Fromme said:
Bob Johnson wrote:
> Maybe. But I expect that the behavior for "rm -rf .." is there so
> that things don't get REALLY astonishing when you do "rm -rf *".
The expansion of "*" does not include "." or "..".
Under /bin/sh, ".*" does match "." and "..", so be careful :)
.??* is a standard workaround that works most of the time. Won't match
.a .b etc but such antisocial files are the exception, one might hope.
--Alex
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