[H-GEN] Shell usage...

Bruce Campbell bc at thehub.com.au
Mon Aug 24 02:15:45 EDT 1998


On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Craig Eldershaw wrote:

> >them, or just starting typing it and hitting tab (assuming bash) should
> >finish it and put quotes around it for you.
> 
> That will work if you have spaces or semicolons etc that might confuse
> quoting won't help here.  Either removing the leading - by pre-prending
> a ./ or explicitely telling rm that there are not more options for it
> (and that all the rest are file names) by adding the -- are the way to go
> (as was pointed out previously).

As always, if you are fooling around trying to delete odd files, '-i' to
rm will keep you sane ;)  (interactive, requests confirmation before
deleting)

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Bruce.






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