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bug#9950: closed (Re: bug#9950: rm -r partial failure)
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
bug#9950: closed (Re: bug#9950: rm -r partial failure) |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Nov 2011 14:26:43 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Graham Lawrence wrote:
> I appreciate the detailed response from Bob Proulx, but I do not think
> it addressed the question I raised.
Please keep the discussion going until we have reached consensus.
> I had expected "rm -rf *.swp" to remove all the files listed by
> find, Mr Proulx informed me that it would have removed none of them,
Not given the information discussed so far. :-)
> but in fact what it did was remove SOME of them.
What? That is very unexpected behavior! Please show us the result of
these commands:
echo *.swp
ls -ldog *.swp
What shell are you using?
echo $0
echo $SHELL
If that happens to turn out to be /bin/sh then please follow up by
figuring out if /bin/sh is a symlink to a different shell. And if it
isn't a symlink try to find out what shell it is really.
ls -ldog /bin/sh
Expansion of the '*.swp' is a function of your shell. So finding that
information is critical to understanding the behavior. I am using
bash. If you are using a different shell then the behavior could be
quite different. But it would still be a function of the shell.
What filesystem are you operating upon? Is it a local filesystem or
a network mounted filesystem such as NFS or Samba? 'find' can print
this information.
find . -name '*.swp' -printf '%F %p\n'
> For example, why did it remove
> /home/g/.vim/renamer.sh.swp
> but ignore
> /home/g/.vim/backup.sh.swp
I am unable to reproduce your results. I used the following setup
actions to recreate your test case:
mkdir g
mkdir g/.vim
touch g/.vim/config.swp
touch g/.vim/Notes.swp
touch g/.vim/nzb.sh.swp
touch g/.vim/makesess.vim.swp
touch g/.vim/backup.sh.swp
touch g/.vim/.vimrc.swp
touch g/.vim/.bashrc.swp
touch g/.vim/renamer.sh.swp
touch g/.vim/vimcht.swp
touch g/.vim/grepnotes.sh.swp
mkdir g/Scripts
touch g/Scripts/.reseq.awk.swp
mkdir g/.fluxbox
touch g/.fluxbox/.menu.swp
$ cd g
$ find . -name '*.swp'
./.vim/.vimrc.swp
./.vim/vimcht.swp
./.vim/nzb.sh.swp
./.vim/Notes.swp
./.vim/config.swp
./.vim/makesess.vim.swp
./.vim/renamer.sh.swp
./.vim/backup.sh.swp
./.vim/.bashrc.swp
./.vim/grepnotes.sh.swp
./Scripts/.reseq.awk.swp
./.fluxbox/.menu.swp
$ find . -name '*.swp' | wc -l
12
$ echo *.swp
*.swp
$ ls -ldog *.swp
ls: cannot access *.swp: No such file or directory
$ rm -rf *.swp
$ find . -name '*.swp' | wc -l
12
Bob