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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: Paul O'Malley <schildt@connect.ie> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:17:02 +0100 Organization: whatever Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32714A6E.15FB7483@connect.ie> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <53nf8l$kaa@Symiserver2.symantec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386) CC: sam@wa4phy.async.com 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) -- Paul O' Malley schildt@iol.ie ; schildt@connect.ie ; http://www.iol.ie/~schildt 'what do u mean you have eight megs now you have four megs #click'