Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Oct 1998 21:54:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Directory name problem... |
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Hi Juha.
> :>> % 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.
On my system, `find` lists EVERY file, so rm is fed a list of every file on the system, and promptly deletes them...
Best wishes from Riley.
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