On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:12:33PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Guest section DW wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Correct. And it won't remove a directory without the '-r'. So
> the original writer used the directory name to assure that it
> had an argument. In changing the name (which they are not going
> to do), I followed the same template.
No - I was the original writer, I suppose, and I can assure you
that no directory was meant. Indeed, /usr/src/linux does not
have a subdirectory core, so the directory cannot be meant.
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