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Add an option to rm to prevent recursive rm crossing mount points

Added by jorisgio about 11 years ago. Updated about 11 years ago.

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Assignee:
swildner
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Start date:
04/13/2013
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Description

With null mounts, rm -r in root can be dangerous. GNU rm as an option for that :

--one-file-system
              when removing a  hierarchy  recursively,  skip
              any directory that is on a file system differ‐
              ent from that  of  the  corresponding  command
              line argument

Here is an easy patch to add a similar option to rm.

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rm.patch (1.51 KB) rm.patch jorisgio, 04/13/2013 07:13 AM
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 #1

Updated by vsrinivas about 11 years ago

Looks good.

The same logic is already present in du, for example, so it's nice to have it be in all of the base utilities.

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Updated by swildner about 11 years ago

  • Assignee set to swildner

grab

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Updated by swildner about 11 years ago

Pushed, thanks!

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 #4

Updated by swildner about 11 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
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