Odd problem with terminal

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 03:12:48PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 09/04/2010 02:50 PM, Steven Susbauer wrote:

     ...........snip.........

> > The proper way to delete all files on the stick would be
> >
> >    sudo rm -rf 4083-B092/*
> >
> > Of course, you could always just reformat the stick as well.
> >
> >    
>          I tried your idea without the sudo. Here is what it did:
> karl at Lucid:~$ cd /media
> karl at Lucid:/media$ ls
> 4083-B092
> karl at Lucid:/media$ rm -rf 4083-B092/*
> karl at Lucid:/media$ ls
> 4083-B092
> karl at Lucid:/media$ rm -rf 4083-B092/*
> karl at Lucid:/media$ ls
> 4083-B092
> karl at Lucid:/media$
> karl at Lucid:/media$ ls
> 4083-B092
> karl at Lucid:/media$ sudo rm -rf 4083-B092/*
> [sudo] password for karl:
> karl at Lucid:/media$ ls
> 4083-B092

Did it ever occur to you to try "ls 4083-B092" after you ran "rm -rf 
4083-B092/*"? If so you would have seen that it was an empty
directory and you could have removed it.

Did you really think that "rm -rf 4083-B092/*" would delete the
directory? Did you not read Steven Susbauer's post about "The proper way
to delete all files on the stick would be"......? 
              ^^^^^


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