Am 26.03.2013 21:08, schrieb Rick Stevens:
On 03/26/2013 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald issued this missive:
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> Am 26.03.2013 18:03, schrieb Matthew Saltzman:
>>> this is safe since a very long time
>>>
>>> [root@testserver:/tmp]$ LANG=c; /usr/bin/rm -rf .*
>>> /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '.'
>>> /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '..'
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>> Does this not depend on where in the tree you are and what permissions
>> you have on . and ..?
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> how many more permissions will you have than root?
"rm" and "rmdir" take care to not delete "." or
"..". "rm" also requires
the "-f" along with "-r" to delete non-empty directories. You
don't
want to delete your current directory (".") and you sure don't want to
delete its parent ("..")
and you don't as proven above