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Re: [ProgSoc] rm'ing too hard
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Ryan Heise wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:09:08PM +1000, Christian Kent wrote:
Running rm ./dir/* causes an error, 'too many arguments'. Bash wildcard
error, I believe.
Maybe this will work:
$ rm -r dir
$ mkdir dir
Nope, in the end I had to use the dreaded rm -rf.
$ rm -rf ./dir
just to be safe :-)
I also tried with just -f but of course it wasn't empty, so nogo.
CK.
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