Re: Quick (?) UNIX Question

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 18:52:20 -0700

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 01:14, Nuno Souto wrote:
> I've used "rm -r .*" with tremendous success
> in older versions of Unix.  Newer ones trap the problem
> and don't go up the ".." hierarchy...
> 

Which is how I learned to use "rm .[a-z]*"  
rather than "rm .*" ;)

Jared


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