Re: bug with rm

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 7/23/2008 6:22 AM:
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| You are correct about the behavior, but just because it is undesirable
| doesn't mean it is a bug.
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| | I shudder to think of the disastrous consequences this has had.
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| We feel your pain.

By the way, if you don't mind using GNU extensions, then you can already
use findutils to accomplish this task:

# depth first deletion of only writable files in recursively from .;
# read-only files are left untouched.  Additional filters can be added
# before the -delete to further restrict which files are deleted
find -depth -perm /w -delete

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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