Re: rmdir

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Author: Matthew Crews
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: rmdir
On 8/20/18 8:26 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
> Or, simply, rm -rf DIR, assuming you want to remove ‘DIR as well as
> anything in it (as I thought he said).


I always make it a point to include ./ so that I don't accidentally
delete something on root (even though rm -rf is supposed to prevent that.

$ rm -rf ./DIR

Including ./ in your path basically tells your system to use your
current working directory


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