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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rivers@dignus.com
Subject: Re: bin/6653
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>>Umm....  if the goal is to remove _everything_ from /var/run;
>>what's wrong with:
>>
>> cd /var/run
>> rm -r -f *
>
>It may fail if there is too many files for the * to expand.

Is that why the -current /etc/rc uses `rm -rf /var/run/*', which fails
slightly earlier if there are lots of files? :-)

Other wrong things:

- `rm -rf *' may fail if there are filenames beginning with "-".
- `rm -rf *' and `rm -rf /var/run/*' both fail if there are filenames
  beginning with ".".  This may be a feature.

Bruce

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