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Normal users can't make a directory at the root of the filesystem by design. To write that safely, you'd test for the result of mkdir and cd to return success
by blueskin_ 12y ago
Normal users can't make a directory at the root of the filesystem by design.
To write that safely, you'd test for the result of mkdir and cd to return success before deleting.
In a shell, you'd just go
mkdir /foo -m 0700 && cd /foo && ${deleteallfiles}