I am going to stab whoever thought of wildcards for shell scripting

[Glickman]

Me: hmm, ok lets get rid of these test directories...
Bash: rm -r dir*


Me now realizing my script filename was dirlogs....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH



sooo noobish of me.


Unix: 1
Me: 0

[Hexis]

What you want to type in each file name when doing everything? crazy.

[behemoth]

atleast you;re not using a distro where the bash is an insult to your intelligence.

[SCpoloRicker]

I've been experiencing similar scripting discrepency issues with several of my abacuses (or abaci) lately.

/porches and lawns and roofs, Oh My!

[Army]

Yeah! HAhahahahaaaaaaa............


what?

[behemoth]

Yeah! HAhahahahaaaaaaa............


what?

Sneaking liquor in shampoo bottles again?

[rkjunior303]

Sneaking liquor in shampoo bottles again?

It's amazing how many nips you can fit in a bottle of Pert Plus.

[Angry]

It's amazing how many nips you can fit in a bottle of Pert Plus.

Isn't nip a Japanese person?

[Warwitch]

It's amazing how many nips you can fit in a bottle of Pert Plus.

Augh, but that aftertaste! Now Pantene on the other hand, thats not so bad.

[Lomarandil]

Isn't nip a Japanese person?

Well, yes, but you would only be able to fit one...

Lo

[d4m4don3]

Me: hmm, ok lets get rid of these test directories...
Bash: rm -r dir*


Me now realizing my script filename was dirlogs....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH



sooo noobish of me.


Unix: 1
Me: 0

Couldn't you put in ? instead of * depending on the shell your using.

[Avale187]

Tip #1 LEARN PERL!

or...

#!/bin/bash
#
for i in `ls -l /var/logs/logdir`; do
rm /var/logs/logsdir/$i
done

[Warwitch]

Tip #1 LEARN PERL!

or...

#!/bin/bash
#
for i in `ls -l /var/logs/logdir`; do
rm /var/logs/logsdir/$i
done

lol, looks like Norwegian to me