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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!leon.replicant.apana.org.au!news From: tedp@replicant.apana.org.au (Ted Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 17:33:01 GMT Organization: RC17 Proving Labs Lines: 27 Message-ID: <55ntt8$mnh@leon.replicant.apana.org.au> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <53nf8l$kaa@Symiserver2.symantec.com> <32714A6E.15FB7483@connect.ie> Reply-To: tedp@replicant.apana.org.au NNTP-Posting-Host: deckard.replicant.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Paul O'Malley <schildt@connect.ie> wrote: >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) Dunno about mc but: I pulled a similar stunt once on another OS. I ended up having to mv all the other files out of the directory, then 'rm *' or 'rm *.*' to remove the offending file. Mister_T -- \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\ | RC17 KLR600 Coherent 4.2.10 OS/2 2.11 Roces BCN | | FreeBSD 2.1.5R tedp@replicant.apana.org.au | \|_________________________________________________________________|