Aarune J. Oracle on Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:53:07 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] escaping on teh commandline..


What about 

rm *blah

or

rm ?blah

-- 
-Rune

In a display of perverse brilliance, Carl the repairman mistakes a room 
humidifier for a mid-range computer but manages to tie it into the network
anyway.
		-- The 5th Wave

it's the same old story; boy meets beer, boy drinks beer... boy gets another beer.
		-- Cheers


On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Chris Beggy wrote:

:Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:32:30 -0500
:From: Chris Beggy <chrisb@kippona.com>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: Re: [PLUG] escaping on teh commandline..
:
:Vale Kenny wrote:
:> 
:> Well, that didn't work...
:> I typed it in exactly as shown below
:> 
:> [secher@frodo /development]# perl -e 'unlink("-blah")'
:> then tried to rm it then tried to rm ./\-blah
:> but still not found..
:
:there's also
:
: bash% rm -- -blah
:
:chris
:
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