**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
Dear friends May be you all noticed this thing 'rm' command is taking the file name as commandline options see the listing of test directory having a file name called '-rvf' [edp@edp0 test]$ ls -al total 24 drwxrwxr-x 3 edp edp 4096 Jan 7 15:19 . drwx------ 7 edp edp 4096 Jan 7 15:18 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 edp edp 1963 Jan 7 13:03 bios.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 edp edp 4268 Nov 15 2001 -rvf drwxrwxr-x 2 edp edp 4096 Jan 7 15:19 test [edp@edp0 test]$ rm * removing `bios.txt' removing all entries of directory `test' removing the directory itself: `test' [edp@edp0 test]$ its removed the directory itself by taking the option '-rvf'. except file '-rvf'. regards Benoy -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
