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From: "Stefan Schmiedl" <s@xss.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:06:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <em947d1d7e-a57c-4666-9c02-59fa9ef10012@9c0a6686.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zcecqb700nrXVUyM@ACM>

------ Original Message ------
From "Alan Mackenzie" <acm@muc.de>
To gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date 10.02.2024 16:56:25
Subject [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

>
>It could have been a lot worse.  Boys and girls, don't use
>
>     $ find .... | xargs rm
>
>unless you really know what you're doing.  And even then, it's probably
>better not to.  ;-(
>
That's why I run

$ find ... -print

before

$ find ... -delete

s.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-10 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-10 15:56 [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me! Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-10 16:06 ` Stefan Schmiedl [this message]
2024-02-11  2:14 ` William Kenworthy
2024-02-11 10:48   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-12  8:34   ` Björn Fischer
2024-02-11 18:13 ` cal

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