Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Computational complexity of rm & ls Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 89 18:21:18 GMT References: <9000012@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <4461@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1541@zen.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Organization: The Octagon Room Lines: 12 In-reply-to: frank@zen.co.uk's message of 12 Mar 89 18:59:43 GMT In article <1541@zen.UUCP> frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes: frank> Maybe adding a '-A' (for All, harder to type than '-a') option frank> to rm would be justified. No doubt doing so would break frank> jillions of scripts. I realize that there is a smiley there, but why should adding -A or -a break any scripts at all? Doesn't seem that anyone should have it as a flag to rm in a script. -- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@rpitsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu