Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!darth!orac!pat From: pat@orac.UUCP (Pat Barron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: none. Message-ID: <136@orac.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 88 02:05:02 GMT References: <9784@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <129@orac.UUCP> <4596@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> Reply-To: pat@orac.UUCP (Pat Barron) Lines: 18 In article <4596@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> dmt@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Dave Turner) writes: ]In article <129@orac.UUCP> pat@orac.UUCP (Pat Barron) writes: ]>Big mistake. You've just probably destroyed all the user directories on ]>the machine, since ".*" matches "..", too. Nice going. ] ]Maybe on some UNIX systems, but the man page for rm on System V states: ] ] ".... It is forbidden to remove the file .. merely to avoid ] the antisocial consequences of inadvertently doing something like: ] ] rm -r .* " I, of course, must have been asleep when I posted my original article... Dave is quite correct. I must have been thinking about a situation I had gotten myself in when the ".." was not at the beginning of the filename (this was also pointed out by someone else - sorry, I don't have the attribution handy). --Pat.