On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:11:54 +1100,
Celik <celik.n.00(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative
solution to using "rm -rf"?
"rm -i" is good as it prompts before deletion however it becomes tedious if
there are a lot of files to be deleted, hence "rm -rf" seems ideal but
dangerous if not cautious :(
Had a look on google, there was one particular recommendation that caught
me attention (sorry I don't have the link). It was recommended to mv the
files (and/or folders) to be deleted into a tmp directory. I'm planning to
try that in my future code, we'll see how things go.
Try to be more careful, especially when there is an asterisk involved.
And I keep in mind about '..', so no deleting '.*'.