Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!iesd!fischer From: fischer@iesd.uucp (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords) Message-ID: <1037@iesd.uucp> Date: 22 Nov 88 23:51:06 GMT References: <1232@atari.UUCP> <564@comdesign.CDI.COM> Reply-To: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark Lines: 17 In article <564@comdesign.CDI.COM> pst@canary.cdi.com (Paul Traina) writes: >From article <1232@atari.UUCP>, by achar@atari.UUCP (Alan Char): >< Actually, you can change the shell. (Nowadays, that's more like three to >< five things.) For example, I would REALLY appreciate in csh a variable >< >< set expandcheck=5 >< >However, 'rm -f * .o' means do it, yes I mean it, don't ask stupid questions. #!/bin/csh unset expandcheck rm -f * .o -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!diku!iesd!fischer We must remove the TV-induced stupor that lies like a fog across the land. - T. H. Nelson