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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!mindspring!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Stupid question Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 04:57:16 GMT Organization: Bedroom Retrocomputing Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5pv5nd$2t6@camel3.mindspring.com> References: <5pqu3o$1be2$1@news.gate.net> <5pt1cn$2p8@innocence.interface-business.de> Reply-To: kpneal@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-37kbn23.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 9 Jul 1997 04:57:17 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3667 j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >dsiebert@gate.net (David Siebert) wrote: >> I really hat to ask this but what is the delete file command in bsd? >> the only UNIX I have used was AIX and it used delete. I have looked >> in man but no luck. >`rm' is the command, also on AIX. On AIX, `delete' is just an alias >(hardlink) to `rm'. Nobody in the unix world would ever call it by >this name (and until 5 minutes ago, i didn't even know AIX had this >alias :). I think Ultrix had some delete command that had an undelete to go with it. I think there was also a command to clean up the trash area that delete would move files to. Hazy memory of mine from when I first learned Unix. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"