RE: Directory name problem...

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:13:33 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote:

>> The system administrator of the main system I use recently installed a
>> script which automagically deletes all directory entries named 'core'
>> every time it's run, which looks like hourly.
>how about asking him to change his script to only delete *files* named core and not
>directories. a core dump cannot be a directory!

That still deletes legitimate files named core that are not core
files. Use "file" to determine if it is a corefile.

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