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- From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: executing down directory tree
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:06:34 GMT
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- In article <_a4m!xr.bosak@netcom.com> bosak@netcom.com (Jon Bosak) writes:
-
- >KG> rm -r <sub-dir>
- >
- >I do hope that this was just the result of a hasty reading on Mr.
- >Germann's part and not some kind of cruel joke. Totally destroying
- >his subdirectory tree was clearly not what the original poster had in
- >mind.
-
- Indeed it wasn't, in which case rm -rf sub-dir-name would be terrible
- advice. All systems I've been on -- and I would think any moderately
- sane system -- defaults to interactive mode for rm -r.
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