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[David C Lawrence]

In <1989Oct6.201107.9465 at eci386.uucp> jmm at eci386.uucp (John Macdonald) writes:
John> Like all things, treating .* files specially has advantages and
John> disadvantages.  Some form of special treatment *was* necessary -
John> otherwise "rm *" would remove "." and ".."!

No it wouldn't.   rm already does special treatment of `.' and `..'.
Some form of special treatment by shell expansion of * wasn't
"necessary" at all.

Dave
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