Am Sa, den 18.06.2005 schrieb John Miller um 14:55: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > rm -rf ./etc > > Just a gentle reminder: for reasons of safety, particularly when giving > "recipe" instructions, it's better to use a full path in connection with > 'rm -rf' (for reasons I know I don't need to explain to you, Alexander). > > In this case, it would be > > rm -rf /var/tmp/etc > John Miller Thanks John for the pointer. You are right that users running any "rm -rf ..." command should be very careful. An "rm -rf . /etc" can lead to exit to hell - at least when running this with root's permissions. Your suggestion that I had better used absolute paths within my small code example is valid and good. On the other hand it is a benefit for shell users if the know about the meaning of . or ./ or / as first, sometimes single path elements Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC2smp Serendipity 17:14:11 up 25 days, 15:51, load average: 0.05, 0.10, 0.09
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