On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:10:01 +0000 "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:28:36PM +0100, Colin Watson > (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:36:25PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > > > Sadly no, I neglected to say that I could not get things to work > > > even using a test account and doing an rm -rf .* in $HOME. > > > > Just in case other people try this, 'rm -rf .*' is VERY DANGEROUS. > > '.*' expands to include '.' and '..', and if you happen to have > > privileges to write to the parent directory then you'll end up > > removing all directories *next* to your current directory as well! > > So what do folks do? > > rm -rf .?* # will expand to include .. .??* has always been a sufficient approximation for me and easy to type (I say approximation because it won't match things like .a) -g
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