I'm a big fan of running a ls command in place of the rm before giving it the full run. On Monday, May 20, 2013, Michael Moore wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:31 AM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >> The difference I am wondering about is how the command responds to > ctrl-c. > >> For me, it looks like it deleted some directories and left others > completely > >> untouched. The "*" glob expands to a list of directory names, so I > suspect > >> the ctrl-c breaks the command after it finishes on the current filename > >> argument. Thus, I think ctrl-c might not stop "rm -rf /home" until it > is > >> done. > >> > >> > >> When I get commands like that which I need to terminate, I do: > >> ctrl-z > >> kill -9 %1 > > > > > > you mean > > ctrl-z > > kill -9 % > > > > %1 may or may not be the right job > > Yes, good point. % is better. > > I don't usually background jobs so %1 is usually the only job I've got > running in the background. I haven't killed anything I didn't mean to > yet, but I'm sure it would've happened eventually. > > -- > Michael Moore > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <javascript:;> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- jason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130520/ebfc9102/attachment.html>