Re: --purge and log/spool files

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Note that there was a relevant thread on -devel around about last
> October.  Someone complained that their thesis was in /var/log/apache/
> and was deleted when they purged the package.  As such, you might
> consider something like rm -f /var/log/apache/{access,error}.log*;

Warning: this type of globbing is not supported by the POSIX shell.
Therefore, it is not suitable for /bin/sh. You can write a for loop, or
use "#! /bin/bash".

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Florent