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Sudo rm -rf .

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[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago

well, depending on your shell

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

Which shell interprets * as everything before extension?

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 7 points 6 months ago

Well I’m not necessarily commenting on the *.* but * will skip .files in bash.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

I think *. * also skips them

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

*.* will likely expect a file named *. and then delete any file globbed, but still leave dotfiles. At least in bash.

In my shell it would just error at me and then I’d be mad fish doesn’t work like bash in this specific case

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