RE: IFS gotcha - potential disaster -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: RE: IFS gotcha - potential disaster
From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:54:32 -0600
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John

That's a better way to do it. I was relying on my experience that "rm" will not delete directories - you need to use "rmdir" for that.

Vern

At 08:26 AM 12/15/2003 -0600, you wrote:

Vern -

Glad you fixed it already.  That is a puzzling one.  I'm especially
wondering how the filename was allowed in the first place.

Did you try 'rm ?.?'?  It seems to me it'd be a little safer than 'rm
???'.  It should leave your 'tmp' and 'usr' directories alone.

- John

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