Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:53:34 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what does "rm //" delete? Message-ID: <20041128185333.GA24199@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20041128112146.GA1696@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de> References: <20041128112146.GA1696@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de>
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in message <20041128112146.GA1696@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de>,
wrote Oliver Fuchs thusly...
>
> I had a directory which contained the following:
>
> ls showed me simple this: "?" with 0 bytes
> ls -axl showed me nothing
Try ...
ls -lia
... and then, note the inode number in left, your left that is, most
column which will be used in ...
find . -inum <noted inode number> -type d -print0 \
| xargs -0 rm -riv
> rm -R //
>
> This was a big mistake which I noticed soon enough (some files in
> /bin were deleted) ... what I want to know is what exactly is
>
> rm -R //
>
> deleting. It seems that it is deleting everything?
Yes, using '//' is same as '/' in some shells. Try this in a sh-like
shell (sh, bash [23], ksh93) ...
for shell in sh csh tcsh bash ksh93 blah
do
shell=$(which $shell)
[ -z "$shell" ] && continue
echo "checking shell $shell"
$shell -c 'cd //usr///local/////bin && echo $PWD && pwd'
echo
done
... here is what i get in some shells (bash is bash 3) ...
checking shell /bin/bash
//usr/local/bin
//usr/local/bin
checking shell /usr/local/bin/ksh93
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin
- Parv
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