bug in rm???

[leam]

jason pearl wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 03:16, Joolz wrote:
> 
>>Just a moment ago something weird happened. I was cleaning up files
>>and noticed a very strange behaviour of the rm command. AFAIK Linux is
>>case-sensitive, so you van have three files TeST, test and TEST in one
>>directory. But I deleted more than I wanted to (no big deal, rm is the
>>issue)
>>
>>So I tried this:
>>
>>  #!/bin/bash
>>  touch TEST
>>  touch TeST
>>  touch test
>>  ls # all three are there
>>  rm te*
>>  ls # ALL THREE ARE GONE???
>>
>>IMO this is _very_ dangerous behaviour, one would expect Linux command
>>to be compatible with the Linux filesystem (maybe rm is a port of del
>>:-\)
>>
>>Is this a known issue? Right know I have only Fedora at hand, but I
>>wonder if other distro's have it too.
> 
> heres what i got.,.. theres gotta be something wrong with your fedora..
> i am using mandrake 9.2..
> 
> [jason at sesso2 test]$ rm te*
> rm: remove regular file `test'? yes
> [jason at sesso2 test]$ ls
> Test  TEst
> [jason at sesso2 test]$ rm Te*
> rm: remove regular file `Test'? y
> [jason at sesso2 test]$ rm TE*
> rm: remove regular file `TEst'? y
> [jason at sesso2 test]$ ls
> [jason at sesso2 test]$
> 
> Rcognizes case sens.. 

My FC1 recognized case (ext3) even with ls unalaised. So no problem here.

ciao!

leam