Re: [MLUG] Re: minor annoyance with '..' files

[Mark Pecaut <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I don't know, but if you are unsure you can always pipe it 
through xargs:

ls -1 ../*/*blah |xargs rm

or use rm -i

Isn't Unix great?  There are about a 1000 ways to remove
files.  Which reminds me of some sysadmin horror stories I 
read once:
http://www2.hunter.com/~skh/humor/admin-horror.html

very interesting!

-Mark

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:46:42PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> One more question.  Is it guaranteed anywhere that the files that 'ls
> pattern' shows are always *exactly* the ones that would be operated on by
> rm, cp, mv, etc. when confronted with the same pattern?  For example, does
> 
> ls ../*/*blah  *always* show me *exactly* what
> rm ../*/*blah  will remove?
> 
> Hmm... not sure on directories.  Should it be "ls -d"?
> 
> Mike
> 
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