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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dummy question
Date: 22 Oct 1996 11:17:41 +0100
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In article <DzFKID.CDL@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
	richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
: 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
: "-".

This has to be the best answer yet ! :)

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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