Weird Files...

[Jerry Feldman]

No. Bash does not parse the -f20, rm does. Bash does expand wild 
cards, such as * and ?.
On 26 Oct 2000, at 13:55, Roger Day wrote:

> Try 
> rm  '-f2'
> 
> bash is interpreting the "-" as a parameter to rm thus 2 is invalid.

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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