On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Guest section DW wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 11:22:51AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > I think it would be "nice" to change the kernel directory name,
> > presently "core", to "Core".
>
> > - rm -f core `find . -type f -name '.*.flags' -print`
> > + rm -f Core `find . -type f -name '.*.flags' -print`
>
> Funny.
> You see, many older versions of rm will give an error message
> when called without argument:
>
> # rm -f
> Usage: rm [-dfirvR] [--directory] [--force] [--interactive] [--recursive]
> [--verbose] path...
>
> So, a construction like
> rm -f core `find stuff`
> is meant to make sure that rm has at least one argument.
> This is not the directory name, but a dummy filename,
> chosen such that we don't mind if it is actually removed.
>
Correct. And it won't remove a directory without the '-r'. So
the original writer used the directory name to assure that it
had an argument. In changing the name (which they are not going
to do), I followed the same template.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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