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On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Simon Waters wrote:
Gordon Henderson wrote:The handy one is the 'rm' command (and mv) - otherwise deleting (or renaming) a file that starts with a dash is somewhat intersting...Afraid the time honoured use of "." is in my command line muscle memory "rm ./-rf" Which I suspect pre-dates all those fancy getopts, and Bash, and Linux.....
In the very olden days there was dsw Delete from SWitches... (As in the toggle swotches on a PDP11 console) It existed in v6, but I think that was the end of it. (thankfully!!!) Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html