Date: 30 Jan 2003 22:06:28 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ooops. Message-ID: <44znpinhl7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1043981504.3e39e4c0b6e66@webmail.adam.com.au> References: <005601c2c8c5$47735b10$6501a8c0@grant> <1043981504.3e39e4c0b6e66@webmail.adam.com.au>
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bastill@adam.com.au writes:
> rm will, unless specifically denied (I THINK you can do that), also follow symlinks.
> In my case I was copying files from one HD to another, put one in the wrong
> place, and deleted it using rm -rf , only to find that it deleted the original
> as well! :-(
Eh?
> PS I think rm needs looking at so it defaults to NOT deleting copy AND source by
> default.
[502] (be-well) lowell> mkdir temp
[503] (be-well) lowell> cd temp
[504] (be-well) temp> mkdir a b
[505] (be-well) temp> touch a/foo
[506] (be-well) temp> ln -s a/foo b/baz
[507] (be-well) temp> ls -l a b
a:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 lowell lowell 0 Jan 30 22:05 foo
b:
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 lowell lowell 5 Jan 30 22:05 baz@ -> a/foo
[508] (be-well) temp> rm -rf b
[509] (be-well) temp> ls -l *
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 lowell lowell 0 Jan 30 22:05 foo
[510] (be-well) temp>
Can you explain what you think is a problem?
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