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From: gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU (Fred Gilham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ARP1.3 bug
Summary: the tilda (~)
Message-ID: <8589@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 19 Apr 89 06:43:54 GMT
Sender: Fred Gilham <gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU (Fred Gilham)
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I don't know whether to call this a bug, or my stupidity, or just
something to watch out for.  But with the arp 1.3 delete command, if
you type something like

   delete *~

you delete everything.  At least, I do.  I guess it matches "anything"
concatenated with "not nothing".

Since I am used to typing rm *~ and delete #?~ because of gnuemacs and
mg, the risk is obvious.  Probably I'll just make a "clean" alias with
the right string (delete *'~ I think).  But maybe knowing this will
save someone some text....
-Fred Gilham