On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, gregrwm wrote: > i am dumbfounded that, tho cp, du, and rsync have -x and find has -mount, rm > -r lacks such a feature, leaving us to either manually check for mounts within > a tree, script it, and/or suffer the loss, eg when forgetting to use said > script! > > my most recent forehead whack follows using /tmp/foo as a quickie mountpoint, > neglecting to specify ro, and a few days later wondering where the data went.. Actually the version of rm on my machine has --one-file-system (it should have -x assigned to that option IMO) Of course, that would imply using such an option which I could forget just as easily as forgetting I had temporarily mounted something. I think I will quit mounting things in /tmp. :-) Gerry -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at skerbitz.org -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list