On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Jiri Baum wrote:
> 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 e
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 be
as a common unix thing, all these funny files should be remove as rm
./funny-file.
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 08:22:56PM +0200, Rolf Edlund wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was playing around with Tar, and done a verry foolish thing.. :-)
>
> tar -cvf --exclude=files.txt allfiles.tar *
>
> That gives me a '-
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote:
>
> $ echo 'int main(){ unlink("--exclude_files=\"blah\"");}' > file.c && \
> > gcc file.c && ./a.out && rm -f a.out file.c &
perl -e 'unlink q?--exclude_files="blah"?'
$ echo 'int main(){ unlink("--exclude_files=\"blah\"");}' > file.c && \
> gcc file.c && ./a.out && rm -f a.out file.c &
Carl
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 08:37:50PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:49:55AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote:
>
> > Umm... wouldn't a simple
>
> >rm '--excude=files.txt'
>
> > work??
>
> No. The problem is rm trying to interpret --exclude as an option, not
> the shell being
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:49:55AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote:
> Umm... wouldn't a simple
>rm '--excude=files.txt'
> work??
No. The problem is rm trying to interpret --exclude as an option, not
the shell being clever.
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On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:22:05AM +, Dan wrote:
> Whats "excude"?
>
> >On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> >
> > > Umm... wouldn't a simple
> > >
> > >rm '--excude=files.txt'
> > >
> > > work??
> >
> >That was one thing I tryed, but it din't work.
> >
> >rm: unrecognized option `-
Whats "excude"?
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> Umm... wouldn't a simple
>
>rm '--excude=files.txt'
>
> work??
That was one thing I tryed, but it din't work.
rm: unrecognized option `--excude=files.txt'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
- * Linux - a more stable way to l
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> Umm... wouldn't a simple
>
>rm '--excude=files.txt'
>
> work??
That was one thing I tryed, but it din't work.
rm: unrecognized option `--excude=files.txt'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
- * Linux - a more stable way to live * -
--
Mvh
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 05:51:50AM +0200, Rolf Edlund wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> > That is, rm -i -- --exclude=files.txt would have removed the file.
>
> One of the wonderful thing about Linux, is that there are several ways to
> fix things. :-)
>
> - * Linux -
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> That is, rm -i -- --exclude=files.txt would have removed the file.
One of the wonderful thing about Linux, is that there are several ways to
fix things. :-)
- * Linux - a more stable way to live * -
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>> "Rolf" == Rolf Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rolf> That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it
Rolf> as 'rm -i --exclude=files.txt' was unpossible. But when I go upp
Rolf> one directory, then it was easy to remove the file.
-- starts an option. Commands, that accept -
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)
2. rm -- FILE
In this case, 2 would work.
/Allan
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On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 08:22:56PM +0200, Rolf Edlund wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was playing around with Tar, and done a verry foolish thing.. :-)
>
> tar -cvf --exclude=files.txt allfiles.tar *
>
> That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it as 'rm -i
> --exclude=files.txt' was u
Hi!
I was playing around with Tar, and done a verry foolish thing.. :-)
tar -cvf --exclude=files.txt allfiles.tar *
That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it as 'rm -i
--exclude=files.txt' was unpossible. But when I go upp one directory, then
it was easy to remove the fi
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