Comments on: Shell Script Nuggets: Simulating File Locks http://www.boredworkers.com/2007/01/26/shell-script-nuggets-simulating-file-locks/ Get a grip! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:06:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Anon http://www.boredworkers.com/2007/01/26/shell-script-nuggets-simulating-file-locks/#comment-21323 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:14:21 +0000 http://www.boredworkers.com/2007/01/26/shell-script-nuggets-simulating-file-locks/#comment-21323 I get rather fidgety when I use the rm -f command. As someone once observed, it's the most showstopping flaw in Un*x - that there's no undo mechanism. I have learnt instead to move the file to a temp folder and then <em>manually</em> delete the contents (yes, using rm), or use Midnight Commander (mc) to <em>buang sampah</em>. I know that there are undo scripts around... just lazy to check them out lah :P Soft-linking is also called a symbolic link or a symlink. :D <strong>G:</strong> Yeah, soft linking is also known as symbolic linking. I hate using rm -f but it's a convenience. I hate rm -rf even more. I've on occasion done rm -rf * on my user root and cried thereafter. I get rather fidgety when I use the rm -f command. As someone once observed, it’s the most showstopping flaw in Un*x - that there’s no undo mechanism. I have learnt instead to move the file to a temp folder and then manually delete the contents (yes, using rm), or use Midnight Commander (mc) to buang sampah. I know that there are undo scripts around… just lazy to check them out lah :P

Soft-linking is also called a symbolic link or a symlink. :D

G: Yeah, soft linking is also known as symbolic linking. I hate using rm -f but it’s a convenience. I hate rm -rf even more. I’ve on occasion done rm -rf * on my user root and cried thereafter.

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