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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:25:15PM +0000, Will Davies wrote:
> I must confess on this occasion I forgot to google so I appologise and
> thanks for reminding me. I suppose the interesting thing about asking a
> group of real people is the diversity in the answers you receive. This
> also helps in building background knowledge. Using google I probably
> would have found the first working solution and stopped. This way as
> well as the suggestion to include the path first I also learnt that --
> ends the command options.
>
> So thank you very much to all of you for your suggestions. BTW rm ?n
> does not work for me.
This is because the shell will expand the wildcard first, before
passing the expanded list to the rm command, so the shell sees:
rm ?n
then checks the directory for matching files, finds one called "-n",
and then executes the command:
rm -n
You have a similar problem trying to quote away the problem (using
rm '-n', say) -- the quoting is a shell thing, and you end up with "rm
-n" again.
Hugo.
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