Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:37:40 +1300 | From | Slava Pestov <> | Subject | Re: Directory name problem... |
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> Tim Smith writes: > :>> % Q> #!/bin/sh > :>> % Q> XYZZY="`find / -name core`" > :>> % Q> for LOOP in `find $XYZZY | sort -ru` ; do > :>> % Q> rm -fr $LOOP > :>> % Q> done > :> > :>You know, interesting things will happen when he runs that script > :>and there are *not* any files named core around... > > Nothing interesting happena as > rm -rf > as itself does nothing and won't give any error message.
Actually, what happends is XYZZY will equal a null string. find "" |sort -ru will give you a list of all files from the current directory. Each one of those files will be rm -fr'ed. If the current directory is /, *ROFL*.
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