Le mer 19/03/2003 à 17:51, Eli Carter a écrit :
> Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Le mer 19/03/2003 à 17:04, Matthias Schniedermeyer a écrit :
> >
> >
> >>rm -rf *
> >>Should do the same(*) but with much better speed.
> >>
> >>Normaly the system should lockup at sometime while doing it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>*: OK. The version above will "break" in the middle after "/bin/rm" (or
> >>"/lib/libc.so.6") got deleted.
> >
> >
> > That would be surprising. Did you actually try it ? :)
>
> The complex version that you snipped would break because it invokes rm
> for each file. The simpler version he gave would not break at that
> point because it is already running. Hence the footnote ton the word
> 'same'.
Aah, yes; I read a bit too fast. *hides*
Xav
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