Re: rm option to not recurse across filesystems

[Eric Blake]

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According to Joshua Hudson on 12/26/2008 10:01 PM:
> I would suggest an option kind of like -xdev to not cross mount points
> and therefore prevent a lot of stupid disasters.
> Kind of like rm -rf / is always a bad idea, rm -rf /tmp/* while
> another filesystem is mounted in /tmp is always a bad idea.
> 
> No, I haven't made that mistake myself yet.

Thanks for the report.  However, GNU findutils already provides this ability:

find /tmp -depth -xdev -delete

It seems to me to be hard to justify adding extensions to rm when another
tool can already do the desired filtering job.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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