<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><span>The difference I am wondering about is how the command responds to ctrl-c. For me, it looks like it deleted some directories and left others completely untouched. The "*" glob expands to a list of directory names, so I suspect the ctrl-c breaks the command after it finishes on the current filename argument. Thus, I think ctrl-c might not stop "rm -rf /home" until it is done.</span><br><span></span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When I get commands like that which I need to terminate, I do:</div><div>ctrl-z </div><div>kill -9 %1</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I also don't think we can recover deleted files in ext3 filesystem (what I'm using).</span><br></blockquote><br><div>I have used photorec (<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec</a>) many times and come off looking like a hero to friends and family. I haven't used it with ext3 before, but it is in the list of supported file systems.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; ">--</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; ">Michael Moore </span></div></body></html>