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From: packman%TAMUNIX.BITNET@tamvm1.tamu.edu (Packman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: When is a file name not a file name?
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Date: 21 Jul 89 17:03:58 GMT
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>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@tamunix.tamu.edu>

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