On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:41:50AM -0500, Michael msulli1355@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> RESPONSE BELOW
> On 03/24/2017 08:20 AM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> >>
> >
> > I'm not familiar with -ff, you may mean -rf. The -r means recursive--that
> > is, if you're removing a directory, adding -r to it means you're removing
> > these days, I seldom bother with echo rm -rf, for whatever reason, I did.
> > It turned out that I was in the / directory, rather than where I thought I
> > was, and if I'd just done rm -rf *, I would have brought the client down
> > till we could restore from backups.
> >
>
> I never used echo rm -rf. It is an interesting idea. I always prefix
> my rm commands with pwd, so that I know exactly where I am, as opposed
> to where I THINK I am.
That works too. The idea is to be sure what you're doing.
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Scott Robbins
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