On Tuesday 07 January 2003 03:32 pm, benos@hotpop.com wrote:

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• LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI

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Dear friends May be you all noticed this thing 'rm' command is taking the file name as commandline options see the listing of test directory having a file name called

its removed the directory itself by taking the option '-rvf'. except file '-rvf'.

Interesting one, what should be done to avoid this?

regards Benoy

benos@hotpop.com writes:

May be you all noticed this thing 'rm' command is taking the file name as commandline options see the listing of test directory having a file name called '-rvf'

[edp@edp0 test]$ ls -al total 24 drwxrwxr-x 3 edp edp 4096 Jan 7 15:19 . drwx------ 7 edp edp 4096 Jan 7 15:18 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 edp edp 1963 Jan 7 13:03 bios.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 edp edp 4268 Nov 15 2001 -rvf drwxrwxr-x 2 edp edp 4096 Jan 7 15:19 test [edp@edp0 test]$ rm * removing `bios.txt' removing all entries of directory `test' removing the directory itself: `test' [edp@edp0 test]$

its removed the directory itself by taking the option '-rvf'. except file '-rvf'.

regards Benoy

rm -r recursive delete -f force delete

as rm -rf deletes all the files including non-empty subdirectories

rm -- <files>

-- option means "interpret all that comes after -- as files ans not as options/switches"

as in rm -- -rvf will remove the file -rvf

Hope that answers your query

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