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From: Paul O'Malley <schildt@connect.ie>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dummy question
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:17:02 +0100
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CC: sam@wa4phy.async.com

tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
> 
> In <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com>, sam@wa4phy.async.com (S.W. Drinkard) writes:
> >
> >Ok, I'm not exactly a newbie, but I created a file with a filename of
> >"--remove-files" due to a blunder of the fingers.  SysV would let me
> >remove it in quotes, or by matching a wildcard patern.  I tried every
> >combination of rm/mv/whatever short of the 45-cal pistol.  How does
> >*bsd do it?
> 

being a lazy person I would use mc (Midnight Commander)

-- 
Paul O' Malley
schildt@iol.ie ; schildt@connect.ie ; http://www.iol.ie/~schildt
'what do u mean you have eight megs now you have four megs #click'