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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!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de!Uni-Dortmund.DE!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Stupid question Date: 8 Jul 1997 09:31:03 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5pt1cn$2p8@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <5pqu3o$1be2$1@news.gate.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3662 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 :). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j