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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 11:22:07 +0100
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In article <5495il$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
:
>> > 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
>> "-".
:
: ...until the first day you got a file named #foo# in your directory.
:
Nope - "rm *" would still work ! But I guess you could create a file
called '# foo' (without the quotes). This wouldn't go, but the subsequent
'--*' would.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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