Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:21:46 +0100 From: Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: what does "rm //" delete? Message-ID: <20041128112146.GA1696@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de>
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Hi, I had a directory which contained the following: ls showed me simple this: "?" with 0 bytes ls -axl showed me nothing So I tried to delete the directory but could not succeed with "rm -R" because the "directory is not empty". I changed to the directory and tried to delete everything inside with "rm *" but also did not succeed. It seemed that the file had no name. So than I did a mistake and wanted to delete the file with no name with the operation: rm -R // This was a big mistake which I noticed soon enough (some files in /bin were deleted). I could repair the damage but what I want to know is what exactly is rm -R // deleting. It seems that it is deleting everything? Thanx in advance Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit
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