> The difference I am wondering about is how the command responds to ctrl-c. For me, it looks like it deleted some directories and left others completely untouched. The "*" glob expands to a list of directory names, so I suspect the ctrl-c breaks the command after it finishes on the current filename argument. Thus, I think ctrl-c might not stop "rm -rf /home" until it is done. > When I get commands like that which I need to terminate, I do: ctrl-z kill -9 %1 > I also don't think we can recover deleted files in ext3 filesystem (what I'm using). I have used photorec (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) many times and come off looking like a hero to friends and family. I haven't used it with ext3 before, but it is in the list of supported file systems. -- Michael Moore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130519/9fa86844/attachment-0001.html>