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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ls -A
Message-ID: <1989Oct7.032907.27496@rpi.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 89 03:29:07 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jmm@eci386.uucp's message of 6 Oct 89 20:11:07 GMT

In <1989Oct6.201107.9465@eci386.uucp> jmm@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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