Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!gatech!udel!princeton!phoenix!asjoshi From: asjoshi@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Amit S. Joshi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: A serious BUG in 'rm' and fix. Message-ID: <1430@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 5 Jan 88 05:41:42 GMT Reply-To: asjoshi@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Amit S. Joshi) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 212 Keywords: BUG rm del Hello, I don't know what the state of the binaries group is and also with the promised large turnaround time I am posting this here. I had posted 'rm' a replacement for the pc 'del' command. Dan Jones Has pointed out a very serious bug in the program : The command "rm -rf dir1 dir2" causes the entire disk to be erased. 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