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pskocik on March 24, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting...

The original example was `rm -rf "$STREAMROOT/"*`, though (the asterisk being out of the double quotes.) Now that glob will expand.

DSMan195276 on March 24, 2015 [–]

Ah, my apologies, I think that was HackerNew's markup at work. The '* ' wasn't there when I looked before.

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