Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:22:50 +0100 From: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> To: "Jackie 'business-first' Cook" <jackie@businessman.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system Message-ID: <20011210232250.GA301@webcom.it> In-Reply-To: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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Either this is a troll, or it's an attempt at the very first layer 8 (between
chair and keyboard) exploit:
> Version #2 - for enterprise (ie. business) users, who are searching for their
> way in life (overwhelming majority) (local solution, still):
>
> find / -print0 | grep -v xargs | xargs -0 rm -f {} \;
> (the -v switch for grep adds some *verbosity*
> during operation)
This doesn't quite do what he says; let's hope nobody tried to run it AND let
it run to its unpleasant end: passing the paths to all the files on your system
down the pipes on a single line, for rm to delete... Too bad the machine would
slow down to a crawl...
nice try anyway ;-)
Andrea
[luckily the rm wouldn't work for at least a reason which is left as an exercise
to the reader]
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