On 16-04-16 09:34 PM, Paul King wrote:
Maybe he was using Windows PowerShell, which has adopted a lot of UNIX-isms including "rm" with recursive and force options. If it behaves anything like DEL with recursive and force options, it will traverse UPWARDS as well as DOWNWARDS in a directory tree (having been burned by that behaviour first-hand a few years ago).
Can't you just picture Microsoft implementing "rm -r" so that it also does upward recursion as well as downward? That would burn a lot of people. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick