Hi!
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:54PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> `.*' matches `..'.
$ rm -rf .*
rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'
rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'
That's GNU rm.
$ rm -rf .*
Cannot remove the current working directory
.
cannot remove ..
That's IRIX rm.
$ rm -rf .*
rm: cannot remove '.' or '..'
rm: cannot remove '.' or '..'
That's AIX rm (note the different quotes around . and .. in comparison
to the GNU rm).
Solaris rm doesn't spit out an error message (maybe because of the -f,
haven't tried without), but also doesn't touch the contents of `..'.
So, does anyone a system where rm -rf .. would actually recursively
delete the parent directory?
Ciao
Thomas
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