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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)
Message-ID: <711@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 08:18:26 GMT
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In article <1670@ski.cs.vu.nl> biep@cs.vu.nl (J A Biep Durieux) writes:
>At the very least, 'rm * .o' should refuse to do anything when the file '.o'
>doesn't exist.

I have posted a "del" command to comp.sources.unix which does this.