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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------