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Date:      16 Jun 1998 13:52:57 +0200
From:      smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rivers@dignus.com, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, zach@gaffaneys.com
Subject:   Re: bin/6653
Message-ID:  <rx4u35ltvfq.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:30:58 %2B1000
References:  <199806130530.PAA14214@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> - `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.

cd /var/run
rm -rf -- * .??*

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com

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