From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jun 16 05:06:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24385 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 05:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (geos01.oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com [134.32.44.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24326; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 05:06:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com) Received: from sunw131.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (sunw131 [134.32.45.97]) by oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA09663 ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:52:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by sunw131.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA01032; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:52:58 +0200 To: Bruce Evans 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 References: <199806130530.PAA14214@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Organization: Schlumberger Geco-Prakla From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 16 Jun 1998 13:52:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:30:58 +1000 Message-ID: Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bruce Evans 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 -- * .??* -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message