Re: rm *

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From: Keith Goldfarb
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 23:27

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Anyone ever notice that ls uses the '?' character to display
garbage characters, and the shell takes '?' as a wild card??

I once worked with someone who did an ls and saw a bunch of
files that started with "???".  He calmly typed "rm ???*" to
remove them.

"Why is this taking so long?"  He asked.....

K.
-- 
Keith Goldfarb              Rhythm & Hues
celia!ke...@tis.llnl.gov    celia!ke...@usc.edu    ...mlogic!celia!keith  
I got nothing.  Too bad.
But I'm happy 'cause that's all I have.

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From: keith@celia.UUCP (Keith Goldfarb)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: rm *
Summary: ? is dangerous too...
Message-ID: <584@celia.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 23:27:55 GMT
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Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood
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Posted: Tue Jan 16 00:27:55 1990
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