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Even with -r, /*.* only matches files and directories in / that have a period in their name. So it would skip over /usr, /home, etc.
by eurleif 12y ago
Even with -r,
/*.*
only matches files and directories in / that have a period in their name. So it would skip over /usr, /home, etc.
- jsmthrowaway 12y agoThat's what "match the glob" means.
- eurleif 12y agoMy point was that the lack of -r doesn't really change anything; even with -r, it would still only delete initrd.img and similar, which would take until the next reboot to notice.