On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 03:16, Joolz wrote: > Just a moment ago something weird happened. I was cleaning up files > and noticed a very strange behaviour of the rm command. AFAIK Linux is > case-sensitive, so you van have three files TeST, test and TEST in one > directory. But I deleted more than I wanted to (no big deal, rm is the > issue) > > So I tried this: > > #!/bin/bash > touch TEST > touch TeST > touch test > ls # all three are there > rm te* > ls # ALL THREE ARE GONE??? > > IMO this is _very_ dangerous behaviour, one would expect Linux command > to be compatible with the Linux filesystem (maybe rm is a port of del > :-\) > > Is this a known issue? Right know I have only Fedora at hand, but I > wonder if other distro's have it too. heres what i got.,.. theres gotta be something wrong with your fedora.. i am using mandrake 9.2.. [jason@sesso2 test]$ rm te* rm: remove regular file `test'? yes [jason@sesso2 test]$ ls Test TEst [jason@sesso2 test]$ rm Te* rm: remove regular file `Test'? y [jason@sesso2 test]$ rm TE* rm: remove regular file `TEst'? y [jason@sesso2 test]$ ls [jason@sesso2 test]$ Rcognizes case sens.. -- jason pearl <jpearl24@xxxxxxx> ++++++++++++++++++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++++++++++++++++++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZ registered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux Machine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N
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