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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Fun with *
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Date: 19 Nov 88 10:13:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: pst@canary.cdi.com (Paul Traina)

In article <564@comdesign.CDI.COM>, pst@canary (Paul Traina) writes:
>However, 'rm -f * .o' means do it, yes I mean it, don't ask stupid
>questions.  I would use it in a shell script no doubt.  Now of course,
>it's pretty unlikely that's what I meant.

And while you're at it, don't forget the problem of the lexicograph-
ically first file being named "-f".

You know.  That could make for a cutesy pie variant of the Morris worm.
Just deposit "innocent" files named "-x" for various values of `x' in
random directories.  Confuse and annoy the hell out of people for a few
minutes whenever they type * as part of a command.

This game won't work with "<name" and ">name" though.  Awwww.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720