[TriLUG] stupid 'rm' question

Chris Merrill cmerrill at nc.rr.com
Mon Aug 4 16:30:42 EDT 2003


John Turner wrote:
> The wildcard expansion only works one time. So the "rm -r" only applies 
> to directories that match with wildcards.

That explains why it didn't work but didn't complain, either.

And guess what?
   "rm -rf * .#*"  doesn't work either (he says while restoring deleted files from CVS....)

> This means you have to use find to do what you are trying.

drat!

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