* Dante Allegria (Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT)) > No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly > build scripts: > rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/* > > <sigh> Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :)
Sure, it does. It's called "intelligent scripting" and it includes setting "errexit" and "nounset" in bash or Z Shell. If you are scripting and not using those above, then you got exactly what you deserved. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple