When is a file name not a file name?

Packman packman%TAMUNIX.BITNET at tamvm1.tamu.edu
Sat Jul 22 03:03:58 AEST 1989


>Next time, try:
>
>rm ./-l     or,
>rm -i *
>
>Jones Smith and Wally Gator

The first one will work ok, but the second one will not because the
shell expands the "*" to "-l" and then rm thinks it's an option.

        See you
        Wally Strzelec
        <packman at tamunix.tamu.edu>

There is no time like the present to postpone what you ought to be doing.



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