On 5/22/07, Philip Rowlands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007, The Wanderer wrote:
> This does not, however, appear to answer his question as I parse it -
> in paraphrase, "why does the --help output not provide this kind of
> information?".
Because the effect is not limited to rm, so "caveat regarding shell
limitations" or something less wordy could arguably be added to the
35-ish coreutils which take a list of files.
Ditto for "files which begin with a dash", "dotfiles not matched by *",
and any other getopt or shell issue which applies to any app which
understands lists of files in argv[].
Nod. Perhaps on systems which by default alias "rm" to "rm -i", such
an alias could also print a random tip along these lines every time it
is invoked.
(yes, this is a joke)
James.
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