Re: [LIH] removing a character device

[Rohit]

Robin Chatterjee wrote:
> I was doing rm -f *
> that ought to include everything oughtn't it ?

Try to do

rm -i * 

and see if it appears. Why? If the # is interpreted by the 
shell, then the actual filename, at best can be the rest
of the filename [containing digits] which does not exist
and -f will not give you any warnings.

makes sense?

Rohit

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