Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:30:58 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rivers@dignus.com Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, zach@gaffaneys.com Subject: Re: bin/6653 Message-ID: <199806130530.PAA14214@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>Umm.... if the goal is to remove _everything_ from /var/run; >>what's wrong with: >> >> cd /var/run >> rm -r -f * > >It may fail if there is too many files for the * to expand. Is that why the -current /etc/rc uses `rm -rf /var/run/*', which fails slightly earlier if there are lots of files? :-) Other wrong things: - `rm -rf *' may fail if there are filenames beginning with "-". - `rm -rf *' and `rm -rf /var/run/*' both fail if there are filenames beginning with ".". This may be a feature. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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