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  3. September 2005

Re: IFS and Recursive Delete

Jones, John (US) wrote:
> rm -r *.* 

I don't have a 400 in front of me right now ... but I think using 'rm
-rf *' is better.

1. -f (on most shell type command lines) tells the rm command to force
the removal.  On *nix systems this avoids a interactive query asking if
it's ok to remove a nominally protected file.
2. *.* may not actually match all files ... only those that have a
period in the file name.  Again, I don't have a system handy, so I can't
check for sure.

david

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