bin/86931: rm wildcards is not rming files with brackets
Jack Low
xxjack12xx at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 02:10:21 PDT 2005
>Number: 86931
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: rm wildcards is not rming files with brackets
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 05 09:10:19 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jack Low
>Release: 6.0-BETA5
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD musirc.com 6.0-BETA5 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 #0: Mon Sep 19 22:30:57 PDT 2005 jack at musirc.com:/usr/obj/usr/nsrc/sys/MUSIRC i386
>Description:
%rm /*/*/*/*/*/*/*-file-in-this*
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
rm: /hidden/---[No-SFV-file-in-this-directory]-: No such file or directory
%
I have replaced the path with /hidden to hide the confidential directories
>How-To-Repeat:
rm *wildcard on a directory with square brackets
>Fix:
if square brackets are seen, escape them.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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