> > The difference I am wondering about is how the command responds to ctrl-c. > For me, it looks like it deleted some directories and left others > completely untouched. The "*" glob expands to a list of directory names, > so I suspect the ctrl-c breaks the command after it finishes on the current > filename argument. Thus, I think ctrl-c might not stop "rm -rf /home" > until it is done. > > > When I get commands like that which I need to terminate, I do: > ctrl-z > kill -9 %1 > you mean ctrl-z kill -9 % %1 may or may not be the right job -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130520/8e195ffc/attachment.html>