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SubjectRe: Directory name problem...
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.


Juha
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