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bug#52206: Bug: rm -rf /*/*
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Bob Proulx |
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Subject: |
bug#52206: Bug: rm -rf /*/* |
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Date: |
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:49:02 -0700 |
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Robert Swinford wrote:
> > > BTW, zsh globbing doesn’t exhibit this behavior! It seems it is only a
> > > problem in bash.
> >
> > In that case, the bug (whatever it is) wouldn't be a coreutils bug.
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> I don't understand the comment that zsh doesn't expand the glob /*/*
> and I tried it and verified that it does indeed expand that glob
> sequence.
Lawrence Velazquez made sense of this on the bug-bash list.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-11/msg00193.html
Bob