Re: scripting question
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:25:08PM +0200, Jan Trippler wrote:
> On Fre, 18 Apr 2003 at 03:17 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:47:46PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > >
> > > There's an amusing defence against that: 'touch /--version'. Then 'rm
> > > -rf *' in / expands to 'rm -rf <stuff> --version <more stuff>', and does
> > > nothing except print its version number and copyright information.
> >
> > Hmm. Along those lines, I guess it's a good idea to watch out for people
> > scattering around files called "-rf" :-/
>
> "touch ./-i" should solve this problem ;-)
OK. My current thoughts are revolving around backtick expansion, but I think
I'll stop experimenting to be on the safe side :-)
Richard
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