kali_fornication@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 15 hours agothis command saves liveslemmy.worldimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1451arrow-down111
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minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agobecause that does not delete hidden files in the directory
minus-squarez3rOR0ne@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoFair enough. Why not tack on rm ./.* as well to that list? Lol. Sorry, I’m truly just curious and not trying to be a smart alec.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agowith that we arrive at the original problem: depending on your shell and its configuration, .. could be part of the results of the glob expansion. so at that point why bother stepping one dir level up
because that does not delete hidden files in the directory
Fair enough. Why not tack on
rm ./.*as well to that list? Lol. Sorry, I’m truly just curious and not trying to be a smart alec.with that we arrive at the original problem: depending on your shell and its configuration,
..could be part of the results of the glob expansion. so at that point why bother stepping one dir level up