8 Apr
2005
8 Apr
'05
12:40 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 23:22 +1200, Craig Box wrote:
We once spent an entertaining amount of time discussing the safest way to remove a file owned by root, in the / directory, named " -rf"
I'd love to see what the list suggests for this :)
cd / && rm -- -rf ?
That will probably only work on a system with GNU Core Utils. BSD's will probably wonder what you're on about. Regards -- Oliver Jones » Roving Code Warrior oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 » www.deeperdesign.com