Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Says you, where and how in pipo's name do you come to that
> conclustion.???
He probably did an ls .* and extrapolated the rest.
What he didn't remember is that the .* gets expanded by the shell to
everything in the directory named .* then the program gets the args.
So ls gets .. in its args and says 'ls ..' which lists all those
things he was worried about deleting, while rm says rm .. which isn't
legal and warns you of that fact.
That's my theory on what he was thinking anyway.
rw2
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