On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:04:18 +0100
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> > > Note that:
> > > rm -rf /home/* won't get rid of those pesky dot files
> > > rm -rf /home/.* gets rid of a little bit too much...
> >
> > Doh! Yeah, you're right. Forgot that many tools ignore hidden files
> > with no option to *not* ignore hidden files.
> The option's certainly there, at least if bash is your shell. 'shopt -s
> dotglob' (which won't cause * to include . and ..); 'shopt -u dotglob'
> turns it back off.
Wait, whoa, sorry I missed this earlier but why does someone think that rm
-rf dir/* will miss . files?
Unless those files are in /home. Why would there be . files in /home?
Shouldn't /home only contain directories?
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