From: | Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> | ||
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To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] rm tragedies: was how to clean the "/tmp" dir | ||
Date: | Sun, 30 May 2004 04:15:03 | ||
Message-Id: | 40B95F9F.5080206@gentoo.org | ||
In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] rm tragedies: was how to clean the "/tmp" dir by purslow@sympatico.ca |
1 | purslow@×××××××××.ca wrote: |
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3 | > given that 'rm' automatically rejects '..' & '.' in these circumstances, |
4 | > it really shd also reject '/' & '~' (incl '/home/username'). |
5 | > i wonder whether the Gentoo developers cd fix the Gentoo version to do that ? |
6 | |
7 | rm doesn't ignore those dirs, the * wildcard simply doesn't match them. |
8 | That's why you should _never_ use .* as a wildcard to match config files. |
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10 | Marius |
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