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I think that is only if you pass
/
, I don't think the flag is required for/*
which is what is shown here - if I remember right, it's because the*
triggers the shell to expand the paths and that flag is only built to protect/
(from say, having an empty variable alongside/
).Yes, the * is expanded by the shell so the rm command just sees lots of individual files being passed in