Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>>>> Here's a contest. Given the directory /tmp/stuff, delete all the files 
>>>> in that directory that end with ".tmp".
>>>>
>>>> Let's see how many iterations it takes to get actually right.
>>> Then I guess rm /tmp/stuff/*.tmp isn't good enough? :)
> 
>> That doesn't even work if there *aren't* funky characters in the file name.
> 
>   It *does* work, assuming you have a sufficiently modern shell (and not
> a 20 years old sh). Modern shells are rather smart at escaping what needs
> to be escaped when you write "*".

Bull. Put 300,000 files to be deleted in /tmp/stuff, and watch it bomb.

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