[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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