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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dummy question
Date: 18 Oct 1996 01:44:09 +0100
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In article <543m89$qo7@mercury.mcs.com>,
tundra@MCS.COM (Tim Daneliuk) writes:
:
: my hackish solution to this problem is rm -i * answering 'y' only to
: the bogus file 8-)
This will *usually* not work - there aren't normally any files that
are alphabetically less than "--remove" - therefore, rm will see args
-i --remove .... No good. As I've already said, if you like -i, use
"-i ./*" or "-ir .".
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.