From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rocheste!ritcv!kar
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: rm ABC*
Article-I.D.: ritcv.260
Posted: Fri Apr  8 16:38:31 1983
Received: Sat Apr  9 06:57:06 1983
References: sri-arpa.828


	Rather than write a new program to remove garbage files, we modified
"rm" to print control characters in \ddd format.  Then, to get rid of a junk
name, you need only type "rm -ri .", and answer "n" until the bogus name is
reached.

	This solves the problem without adding yarm (yet another rm), and has
the additional advantage of taking a long time if you have a broad directory
organization, encouraging users split files among many directories like they
should.

	Ken Reek, Rochester Institute of Technology
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