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  • From: Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>
  • To: BasicLinux List <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [BL] rm -r and grep -r for busybox
  • Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:35:07 +0000

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:18:34PM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > Busybox doesn't have either of these options, both of
> > which are very valuable. rm -r allows you delete an
> > entire directory tree.
>
> The busybox in BL3 does have the -r option:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Options:
> -i always prompt before removing each destination
> -f remove existing destinations, never prompt
> -r remove the contents of directories recursively
> ------------------------------------------------------

Oops. I have rm aliased to

#!/bin/sh
#use \rm to empty /tmp/trash

/bin/mv "$@" /tmp/trash

Because I run as root.

So when I tried rm -r I got the usage file for mv...

Oh well. I _know_ that it doesn't have grep -r.

Thanks for catching that.

Lee

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