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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
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Subject: Re: Your favourite UNIX-pipe (summary)
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Date: 4 Aug 90 12:58:54 GMT
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trt@rti.rti.org (Thomas Truscott) writes:

}	(rm -f /tmp/*)			# Recommended
}seems wiser, particularly since files in /tmp can be named "-r" or "-i".

On the other hand, adding '-r' makes some sense, unless you'd really like to
leave a subdirectory of /tmp around forever.  Also, I do "rm -f /tmp/.*"
[*NO* '-r' on this one, thank you very much! :-)].

  /Bernie\