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From: jws@hpcljws.HP.COM (John Stafford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re^2: an rm question
Message-ID: <670015@hpcljws.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 88 00:45:55 GMT
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Organization: HP NSG/ISD Computer Language Lab
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Note
   rm -f './*'
is not necessary as
   rm -f '*'
will work just fine (the ''s inhibit expansion of the *).  And yes it is
dangerous.

Using
   unlink ("-fr *");
in a C program is going to try to unlink a file named
   -fr *
to unlink a file named * in a C program use
   unlink ("*");

John 'picky picky picky' Stafford