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Subject: Re: rm(1) bug, possibly serious
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Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Sep 26), Oliver Fromme said:
>  
>
>>Bob Johnson wrote:
>>
>> > Maybe. But I expect that the behavior for "rm -rf .." is there so
>> > that things don't get REALLY astonishing when you do "rm -rf *".
>>
>>The expansion of "*" does not include "." or "..".
>>    
>>
>
>Under /bin/sh, ".*" does match "." and "..", so be careful :)
>
>  
>
.??* is a standard workaround that works most of the time.  Won't match 
.a .b etc but such antisocial files are the exception, one might hope.

--Alex