Subject: Re: bug#12339: Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is

From: "Alan Curry" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 03:40:58 -0500 (GMT+5)

Jim Meyering writes:
> 
> Alan Curry wrote:
> 
> > rm -rf $PWD, meaning basically the same thing as rm -rf ., works, and leaves
> 
> If you use that, in general you would want to add quotes,
> in case there are spaces or other shell meta-characters:
> 
>     rm -rf "$PWD"

Well, when I do it I'm in zsh which has fixed that particular Bourne shell
design error.

-- 
Alan Curry