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Stéphane Chazelas
Stéphane Chazelas
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More practical, there's a difference between

cd /backup/old; rm * -rf -- *

and

cd /backup/old && rm * -rf -- *

. Besides it's a stupid way, the first one will remove your whole filesystem (or $HOME, depending how it's called) because it runs rm regardless whereverof whether the cd succeeded or not.

More practical, there's a difference between

cd /backup/old; rm * -rf

and

cd /backup/old && rm * -rf

. Besides it's a stupid way, the first one will remove your whole filesystem (or $HOME, depending how it's called) because it runs rm regardless wherever the cd succeeded or not.

More practical, there's a difference between

cd /backup/old; rm -rf -- *

and

cd /backup/old && rm -rf -- *

. Besides it's a stupid way, the first one will remove your whole filesystem (or $HOME, depending how it's called) because it runs rm regardless of whether the cd succeeded or not.

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Reactormonk
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More practical, there's a difference between

cd /backup/old; rm * -rf

and

cd /backup/old && rm * -rf

. Besides it's a stupid way, the first one will remove your whole filesystem (or $HOME, depending how it's called) because it runs rm regardless wherever the cd succeeded or not.