GNU bug report logs - #12339
Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is documented to do so.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 00:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 12339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Alan Curry" <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org>
To: jim <at> meyering.net (Jim Meyering)
Cc: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>,
	12339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12339: Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it
	is
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
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 187 days ago.

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