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Always try sudo (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Please forgive my ignorance. What does ** do?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Acts as a wildcard for any directories that exist between arteries and clot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

TIL!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

But only in Bash and if settings match. It's only reliable on your own shell, don't use it in scripts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's a glob pattern (edit: tried to find a source that actually showed ** in use).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Had to look this up as well. Its not rm specific:

* is a simple, non-recursive wildcard representing zero or more characters which you can use for paths and file names. ** is a recursive wildcard that can only be used with paths, not file names.

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