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From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Your favourite rm in /tmp (was: Your favourite UNIX-pipe (...))
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Date: 6 Aug 90 22:21:54 GMT
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In-Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl's message of 6 Aug 90 21:01:59 GMT

In article <7249@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:

	   $ rm .??* .[!.]		# not portable to every UNIX version

Doing it the hard way, eh? I like:

/etc/unmount /dev/rz3a		# just to make sure it's unmounted.
/etc/newfs /dev/rrz3a rz55

Then let the system mount it with everything else.

	<mike
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