Re: rm(1) bug, possibly serious
- From: Oliver Fromme <olli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:20:19 +0200 (CEST)
Dan Nelson wrote:
Oliver Fromme said:
The expansion of "*" does not include "." or "..".
Under /bin/sh, ".*" does match "." and "..", so be careful :)
For that reason I got used to type ".??*" instead of ".*"
since I started with UNIX almost 20 years ago. ;-)
Apart from that, zsh is my shell of choice. It never
matches "." or ".." with any globbing patterns. I think
no shell should. I would submit an appropriate patch
for FreeBSD's sh if it would be committed, but I doubt
it would. Even this discussion here about an obvious
bug in rm has bikeshed tendencies. :-(
Best regards
Oliver
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