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Subject:	"rm -rf ./foo/" safe to use?
Date:	Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:36:02 -0500
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Rightly or wrongly over the years I've refrained from using
cygwin to delete large directories; instead, from bash I'll cd
to the parent dir, and run:

  cmd /c rmdir /s /q MYDIR2DELETE

I think I had read something years back about cygwin's inode
simulation (sorry to munge up the terminology), being imperfect;
so that may have convinced me to not use "rm -rf DIRXXX".

So is "rm -rf ./foo/" safe to use?  Is there any danger that
anything other than ./foo/ will be deleted?

Thanks for any help, I'm mainly just curious.  :->

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Tom Rodman

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