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Stephen Keane
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‎07-07-2008 06:44 AM

‎07-07-2008 06:44 AM

Re: problem after rm -rf *

The best one I've seen to date, run as root in a script designed to "trim" a log file directory.

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export LOG_DIR="blah"
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cd $LGO_DIR
rm -fr *.*


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Patrick Wallek
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‎07-07-2008 07:05 AM

‎07-07-2008 07:05 AM

Re: problem after rm -rf *

That is precisely why one should always put a 'set -u' in scripts. That way the script would error out before doing the 'rm'.
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