Bug 145564
| Summary: | rm removes directories by default | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mike <lsomike> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-01-19 20:36:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Nevermind, my concern seems to be a brain fart on my part. Regards, Mike Klinke |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: From the "rm" man page: ================== SYNOPSIS rm [OPTION]... FILE... DESCRIPTION This manual page documents the GNU version of rm. rm removes each specified file. By default, it does not remove directories. =================== but in acutal practice it happily removes directories as follows: $ mkdir dir1 $ mkdir dir2 $ mkdir dir3 $ touch dir1/file1 $ touch dir2/file1 $ touch dir3/file1 $ rm -rv * removed `dir1/file1' removed directory: `dir1' removed `dir2/file1' removed directory: `dir2' removed `dir3/file1' removed directory: `dir3' $ alias alias l.='ls -d .* --color=tty' alias ll='ls -l --color=tty' alias ls='ls --color=tty' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' alias vi='vim' alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-5.2.1-31 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.build tree of files/directories 2.issue "rm -r *" 3. Actual Results: directories are removed Expected Results: files should be removed but directoies shouldn't according to the documentation. Additional info: