Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to my posting last week.
Here's the results.
MY ORIGINAL QUESTION:
I would like to clear all files from /tmp on bootup. The
command in /etc/rc,
(cd /tmp; rm -f - *)
doesn't remove the files whose names begin with a ".".
How can I clear /tmp of all files on bootup? I would like
to put the command in /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local so that it's executed
each time the system is booted. Thanks.
SEVERAL OF THE MANY SOLUTIONS I RECEIVED:
1. (cd /tmp; rm -f - * .[a-zA-Z]*)
2. (cd /tmp; rm -f - *)
(cd /tmp; rm -f .*)
3. rm -f /tmp/* /tmp/.??*
4. cd /tmp && {
find . ! -type d -exec rm -f '{}' ';' # remove files
find . -type d ! -name . -depth -exec rmdir '{}' ';' # remove dirs
}
5. find /tmp -exec rm {} \;
6. find /tmp -type f -exec rm {} \;
7. (cd /tmp; rm -f - * .*)
8. Use the tmpfs filesystem, this is in memory ans is cleared on boot time
(fast but restricted in space)
9. rm -rf /tmp; mkdir /tmp; chmod 777 /tmp
10. A slightly less brutal approach would be
rm -f - * .*
which should generate error messages saying
rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'
rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'
so
rm -f - * .* > /dev/null 2>&1
would probably be required.
11. (cd /tmp; rm -fr - * .* 2>/dev/null)
12. (cd /tmp ; find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; ; find . -type d ! -name . -exec rmdir {} \;)
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