[svlug] Rescuing from test/test/test/test/...

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:54:41 -0800 (PST) 
David Ljung <dave at sandcraft.com> wrote:

>> >> $ while [ 1 ]; do mkdir test; cd test ; done
>> 
>> > Ouch. But doesn't that just lead to (a really) long pathname,
>> like > /test/test/test/test/test/test/test/test/test/test etc.?
>> 
>> Yup, that's what it will do.  The question is how do you rescue
>> from that?  How do you remove taht tree?

> Many ways.  A simple, slow version is:

> $ while [ 1 ]; do mv test test2 ; mv test2/test . ; rmdir test2 ;
> done

Another approach is the walk to the bottom of the tree as far as you
can go, symlink the next branh back up to root, walk down that,
repeating the whole thing as necessary, and then rm -rf the symlink
in reverse order.

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