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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: dummy question
Message-ID: <DzFKID.CDL@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <53oncv$fi5@newshost.lanl.gov> <N.101396.162611.72@scrantr> <53udvf$85v@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 17:27:48 GMT
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In article <53udvf$85v@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:

>	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
"-".

-- Richard
-- 
"Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"