Hello, Allan M. Wind: > On 1999-07-04 20:22, Rolf Edlund wrote: > > > rm -i Backupfiles/--exclude=files.txt > > There are 2 tricks: > > 1. rm -i * (say no to everything that you want to keep)
No, this doesn't work. The shell expands the `*', and rm is once again left with a filename beginning with two dashes. I know, I have a lot of ex-umsdos directories mounted over samba. > 2. rm -- FILE That usually works, but not for all commands. (One that comes to mind is "cd". You have to say "cd ./DIRECTORY".) Jiri -- Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.
