>>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Karsten> on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:28:36PM +0100, Colin Watson
Karsten> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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!
Karsten> So what do folks do?
Karsten> rm -rf .?* # will expand to include ..
Karsten> rm -rf .[^.]* # seems right.
mkdir temp
# Add * to the following if one would like to nuke everything
mv .* temp
# Check to see whether temp contain anything wrong
\rm -rf temp
Regards,
Isaac.
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