Maybe a BSD thing?
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:26 PM, John Shaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, rm doesn't have a -P option on any of my systems. From what I can > find its a mac OSX thing? That seems to be fine to me, although maybe they > could add an option to switch between different types of systems. > > I did, however, find that it gets confused by backticks, which might be > confusing for someone who doesn't know what they are, but I could just copy > out the contents of the backticks as a separate query to see what that does > and then... yeah it would work but not very convenient. > > Thank You, > > John Shaver > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Lonnie Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Andy Bradford <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Not so useful after all... > > > > > > http://explainshell.com/explain/rm?args=-P+%2Ftmp%2Fjunk > > > > my version of rm doesn't have a -P option. > > rm (GNU coreutils) 8.20 > > > > I don't see how it's "No so useful". Your example shows it's even more > > useful. > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
