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Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:31:34 +0200
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* Dave Korn (Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:11:05 +0100)
> And I just learnt about the `--preserve-root' option, that I didn't
> even know about before.

You mean "--preserve-root
              do not remove `/' (default)" (quoting the man page)?

I wonder whether I will receive another "If you're saying that "--
preserve-root" is always active when you type "rm" then, no that is not 
true" response.

Thorsten


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