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Subject: Re: docs/31803: Handbook make world addition
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To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 21:54:26 +0100 (CET)
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From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
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Michael Lucas wrote:
[snip]
>  +             <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/obj</userinput>
>  + &prompt.root; <userinput>chflags -R noschg *</userinput>
>  + &prompt.root; <userinput>rm -rf *</userinput>

to avoid disasters, it would be better to say :

chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/.	(/. to travers symlinks)
rm -rf /usr/obj/*		(or find /usr/obj/. -depth -delete)

so, if /usr/obj doesn't exists and the user makes a cut and paste,
this has no effect on the current directory...

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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