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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: dummy question Message-ID: <DzFKID.CDL@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <53oncv$fi5@newshost.lanl.gov> <N.101396.162611.72@scrantr> <53udvf$85v@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 17:27:48 GMT Lines: 11 In article <53udvf$85v@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: > rm -- --remove-files Even better, put a file called "--" in all your directories so that "rm *" always works, even when you have other files beginning with "-". -- Richard -- "Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"