Fish - The friendly interactive shell
Fish - The friendly interactive shell
Posted May 30, 2005 21:15 UTC (Mon) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458)In reply to: Fish - The friendly interactive shell by Jyhem
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Look at your example again... If *.bak does not match anything, the for loop body will execute exactly zero times. So the rm command will _never_ be run. And even if it had, running rm without any parameters doas not remove anything. So you are doubly safe.