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From: Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"?
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:55:14
Message-Id: 2799370.TBN0L1cuLo@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"? by Florian Philipp
1 Top-posting IMPORTANT NOTE ON TOP
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3 Do NOT create the file I mention below unless you WANT to risk deleting ALL
4 your files.
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6 On Tuesday 19 July 2011 15:58:44 Florian Philipp wrote:
7 > The double dash will prevent mv from interpreting weird file names like
8 > "-h" as parameters. Just about every standard GNU tool supports this.
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10 Or worse, a file called " -rf ".
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12 If anyone wants to try what happens when " rm * " finds that file, please do so
13 ONLY on a machine you want to wipe anyway...
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16 Joost