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Subject: Re: Ugly File Name (Correction to correction)
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Date: 15 May 89 18:43:16 GMT
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From: dougb@mustang.WV.TEK.COM (Doug Becker;685-2062;61-277;;mustang)
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     As Guy Harris pointed out, in a correction to my second posting:

>>     I of course meant 'rmdir -rf,' not 'rm -rf'.
>
> No, you didn't; "rmdir" generally doesn't take "-r" or "-f" flags, even
> if it may happen to do so on your system.

    Guy's right, of course, and I for my part have discovered a new level 
of embarrassment: posting an article with the 'right' (for some definition 
of right) answer, then apologizing for it being wrong and posting an answer
that probably won't work on *ANY* system. My heartfelt apologies to everyone 
who vainly tried my second [rmdir] suggestion. 

     And to think it wasn't even a Monday when I posted...

                                                         --- Doug

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