Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Jason Lunz wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com said:
>
> > Other tips?
>
>
> use zsh:
>
> 	[orr](0) % zsh
> 	[orr](0) % touch .foo
> 	[orr](0) % echo .*
> 	.foo
> 	[orr](0) % bash
> 	bash-2.05b$ echo .*
> 	. .. .foo
>
> Jason

or just use a recent version of coreutils[>5.0-5 tested]

$rm -rf .*
rm: cannot remove '.' or '..'
rm: cannot remove '.' or '..'
$

:)[Though this doesn't stop it from being very dangerous if you sit down 
at a random computer]

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