On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:31 AM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: >> 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 > > > you mean > ctrl-z > kill -9 % > > %1 may or may not be the right job Yes, good point. % is better. I don't usually background jobs so %1 is usually the only job I've got running in the background. I haven't killed anything I didn't mean to yet, but I'm sure it would've happened eventually. -- Michael Moore