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I don't have an account on StackExchange but the best way to avoid this is to always run find and then pipe to rm. find . -name "whatevs" hit enter, verify yo

by dools 15y ago

I don't have an account on StackExchange but the best way to avoid this is to always run find and then pipe to rm. find . -name "whatevs" hit enter, verify you are deleting what you expect then hit the up arrow and type: | xargs rm -rf

sirn 15y ago
...or just use `-delete`: find . -iname "whatever" -delete Otherwise you're screwed if someone managed to put a file named "/" somewhere in your find directory, which `-delete` has safe-guard for.