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From: wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Message-ID: <4640014@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Mar 89 01:07:27 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> Why not    rm -i *   and answer no to all the queries except -ls?

Because * is expanded by the shell so the argument list passed to
rm might be "-i -ls foo1 foo2".