[SLL] Linux Roulette:

Scott Blachowicz scott.ssc at sabami.seaslug.org
Thu Feb 14 11:28:35 PST 2008


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:39:09AM -0800, Glenn Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:31:29AM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> >!rm
> 
> Took me a second to get that one.  Yeah, that's shooting blind, for sure... 
> 
> Although one could say
> 
> !rm:p
> 
> to make sure...
> 

Or how about this in a "cleanup" script:

  cd / tmp
  find . -mtime +30 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

I did something close to that (once) in a cleanup script on an HP-UX system
almost 20 years ago now...

Scott

PS: Notice the space between the "/" and the "tmp" -- it cd's to "/"...


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