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Re: scripting question



----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Henson" <debian-list@silvercoin.dyndns.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: scripting question


> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 20:40, nate wrote:
> > rm -rf *
> Do me a favor.  Try this on your system as root.  Then walk a way and
> come back an hour later.  Youll need another system to tell us what
> happened cause yours will be hosed.  This command will generally delete
> your entire file system.

Well generally it depends what directory you execute it from.  But I agree
that it is a risky policy.

FWIW, I thought of rm -rf `ls |grep -v ?B?` but didn't know the regexp for
start and end of word (the ?'s)...

A




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