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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: unix question: files per directory
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Date: 1 May 89 21:34:56 GMT
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>I would like it if "rm" were similar to most other commands, ie. you
>could rm "*", preventing the expansion of the * to all file names
>until "rm" got it,

Uhh, to what other commands are you referring?  Most UNIX commands don't
know squat about expanding "*"; they rely on the shell to do so, and
merely know about taking lists of file names as arguments.  Other OSes
do things differently; perhaps that's what you're thinking of?