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From: davis@hplabs.UUCP (Jim Davis)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re(2): filename hoopla
Message-ID: <1678@hplabs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Aug-83 16:32:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  8 16:32:16 1983
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        Steven J Holmes <sjh@csnet-purdue> writes:
>	You cannot always use rm -i *. I have accidentally
>	created a file named '-mab' which causes an unkown
>	option message from rm when rm -i * is tried.

	However, 'rm -i ./*' should work fine.  It does on
this system(Berkeley 4.1).

% ls
-mab
% rm -i *
rm: unknown option -mab
% rm -i ./*
rm: remove ./-mab? y
% 
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					Jim Davis (James W Davis)
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