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Sudo rm -rf .

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[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

well, depending on your shell

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

Which shell interprets * as everything before extension?

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago

Well I’m not necessarily commenting on the *.* but * will skip .files in bash.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

I think *. * also skips them

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

*.* will likely expect a file named *. and then delete any file globbed, but still leave dotfiles. At least in bash.

In my shell it would just error at me and then I’d be mad fish doesn’t work like bash in this specific case

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