Subject: Re: directory to be deleted
From: Troy Melhase (troy@gci.net)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 23:11:00 AKDT
On Friday 19 September 2003 09:18, Barsalou wrote:
> That worked nicely Jamie....thank you. I figured out that it was from
> me trying to put pilot contacts into a csv file and I did the syntax
> wrong.
>
> I won't for get the ./ again....that is very useful.
i'm sure there's lots of ways to do delete files like this, but one thing that
most shell commands know is to terminate their option list with two dashes,
as in:
# rm -- -a
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