Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usenet in 1986

Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by sedatk on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:32PM (#36950335)

"echo *" just prints "*" on bash unfortunately.

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Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by bryanlarsen on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:44PM (#36950454)

That's its behaviour in an empty directory, but it works for me on a non-empty directory.

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Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by sedatk on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:54PM (#36950538)

Oh, you're right. Never occurred to me that my home folder would be empty.

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Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by hulitu on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:30AM (#36955137)

I presume you don't have a "modern desktop" installed. Hell, even Firefox spams $HOME with "Downloads".

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Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by sedatk on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:25PM (#36978596)

You're right, it's WSL; so, just dotfiles.

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Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by tp34 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:12AM (#36952205)

shopt -s dotglob

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Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by seanhunter on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:00AM (#36954913)

Yes. Or one lowtech method I use often is `touch ~/-i`. When someone tries to rm -rf * the file called “-i” gets globbed at the front of the arguments and the subsequent command goes into “interactive “ mode meaning it prompts y/n for each file

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Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by tpoacher on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:08AM (#36967904)

Nice! Great "bug as a feature" trick!

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Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by raldi on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:51PM (#36959668)

What version of bash do you see this happening on? Mine works as expected.

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Re:Classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usen... by sedatk on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:57PM (#36960758)

I happened to try it in a directory with only dotfiles apparently.

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