Re: major blunders

From: Aaron Leonard <aachleon_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:57:55 -0500
Message-ID: <34f494ce0910091057h52d79732j324d9faf6da5c774_at_mail.gmail.com>

I'd be very wary of relying on that. It doesn't account for when you are not in the directory which contain the files your are deleting.

oracle:~/adl/tmp> for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do echo 1 > file$i; done
oracle:~/adl/tmp> touch -- -i
oracle:~/adl/tmp> rm -f *

rm: remove regular file `file1'?
oracle:~/adl/tmp> rm -f *

rm: remove regular file `file1'? n
rm: remove regular file `file2'? n
rm: remove regular file `file3'? n
rm: remove regular file `file4'? n
rm: remove regular file `file5'? n
rm: remove regular file `file6'? n
rm: remove regular file `file7'? n

oracle:~/adl/tmp> n
bash: n: command not found

oracle:~/adl/tmp> cd ..
oracle:~/adl> rm -f tmp/*
oracle:~/adl> ls -l tmp

total 0
oracle:~/adl>

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Fmhabash <fmhabash_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If I may add ...
>> - I altered behavior of 'rm' cmd forcing it to be interactive needing
>> user confirmation. Scripts coded to use non-interactive version.
>>
>
> A trick to avoid accidentally deleting files you would rather keep.
>
> Create a file called '-i' in key directories. This will force rm -f to go
> into interactive
> mode, as the '-i' filename is interpreted as an argument.
>
> Create '-i' file: touch -- -i
>
> The double dash is used to tell rm (or any other *nix command) that the
> following stuff on the command line is not a command line option.
>
> Remove the file: rm -- -i
>
> Create a tmp directory, copy a few files into it, and try it.
>
> It has saved me at least once.
>
>
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
> Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
> Home Page: http://jaredstill.com
>
>

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