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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: more rm insanity
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Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 06:41:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 28 06:41:14 1987
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In article <6840002@hpcllmv.HP.COM> sunil@hpcllmv.HP.COM (Sunil
Bhargava) writes:
>I had posted a solution to the rm * problem earlier. This involved having
>a file called -i in your directory (aliasing mkdir to a mkdir + echo > -i
>). What is worng with that solution??.

Among other things, it does not always work:

	% rm tmp. *
	(oops!)

	% rm dir/*
	(hmm)

(The latter example reminds me of another thing:  Why is it that
people have so much trouble figuring out how to remove files whose
names start with `-'?)
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