Re: 'core' (patch)

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Sat, 12 Feb 2000 03:07:19 +0100


On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 11:22:51AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> I think it would be "nice" to change the kernel directory name,
> presently "core", to "Core".

> - rm -f core `find . -type f -name '.*.flags' -print`
> + rm -f Core `find . -type f -name '.*.flags' -print`

Funny.
You see, many older versions of rm will give an error message
when called without argument:

# rm -f
Usage: rm [-dfirvR] [--directory] [--force] [--interactive] [--recursive]
[--verbose] path...

So, a construction like
rm -f core `find stuff`
is meant to make sure that rm has at least one argument.
This is not the directory name, but a dummy filename,
chosen such that we don't mind if it is actually removed.

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