undo rm -rf *

[Reindl Harald]

Am 26.03.2013 21:08, schrieb Rick Stevens:
> On 03/26/2013 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald issued this missive:
>>
>>
>> Am 26.03.2013 18:03, schrieb Matthew Saltzman:
>>>> this is safe since a very long time
>>>>
>>>> [root at testserver:/tmp]$ LANG=c; /usr/bin/rm -rf .*
>>>> /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '.'
>>>> /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '..'
>>>
>>> Does this not depend on where in the tree you are and what permissions
>>> you have on . and ..?
>>
>> 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

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