[Gllug] rm -R not working on Fedora

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:34:10PM +0000, Garry wrote:
> 
> So rm -R can only be used for non-specific removals? Then how come I've used
> chmod -R with wildcards to selectively modify permissions of files within
> subdirectories, eg.
> 
> chmod -R 644 *.html

Firstly, chmod and cp are not the same binary, so why should you expect
them to behave in the same way just because you pass them the same
letter as a parameter?

Secondly, that command would not touch anything in any subdirectories
unless at least one of the directories in the current working directory
also ended in .html.  What that command line will do is expand *.html to
match the list of files and directories and then pass that to the chmod
command.

You need to read up on shell wildcard expansion and to test your
theories a bit more rigourously.

-- 
Bruce

I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold.
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