[PLUG] List Working?

[Cooper Stevenson]

I hardly ever use `rm' by itself as myself and *never* as root.

I usually perform the following:

find /the/directory/or/files/you/wish/to/delete -exec ok {} \;

In scripts, I always check first to see if the directory exists:

  if [[ -d /full/path/to/directory ]]
  then
    find /full/path/to/directory -exec rm {} \;
  fi

Of course, if you enjoy sleeping in your office, be my guest.


-Cooper

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 16:43, Steve Bonds wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Roderick A. Anderson raanders at acm.org XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:
> 
> > On 29 Jul 2002, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > 
> > > It was me, and I'm sorry about the list being down over the weekend.
> > > I was up too late working...
> > 
> > I was always told you weren't considered a real sysadmin until you done a
> > rm -rf at root.
> 
> My personal favorite is:
> 
> rm -rf / home/user-you-meant-to-remove
> 
> Whoops!  Damn that sticky space bar!  ;-)
> 
>   -- Steve
> 
> 
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