On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 09:48:49AM -0800, James Nessen wrote:
> Another quick way to delete files is to supress the file name in quotes ""
> ie. (rm -f "-sT")
No, this does not work. "" are removed by the shell, both "-sT" and -ST
pass -sT to the rm command ... which will complain that 's' is an unknown
option.
"" are only good at protecting file names that have whitespace or wildcard
characters (* and ?) in them.
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