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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: 18 Oct 1996 23:58:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5495il$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <53oncv$fi5@newshost.lanl.gov> <N.101396.162611.72@scrantr> <53udvf$85v@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DzFKID.CDL@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: > > 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 > "-". ...until the first day you got a file named #foo# in your directory. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)