[Discuss] Command line question

Adam Parkin pzelnip at telus.net
Wed Jul 26 16:17:45 PDT 2006


David Bronaugh wrote:
> Deryk Barker wrote:
>> Adam Parkin wrote:
>>
>>> David Bronaugh wrote:
>>>
>>>>> What's a quick way of doing this on the command line?
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, if my other mail got through, this is a correction
>>>
>> See what I mean about find's syntax? :-)
> Actually, I was being sloppy with rm...

I suppose I was being a bit gullible just taking the command you gave me 
and running it without taking a close look at it.  For all I knew you 
might've been a malicious hAX0r type and fed me something like:

find / -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \;

and then I would've lost my repository. =8-p
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Adam Parkin
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