Weird Files...

Derek Martin ddm at mclinux.com
Thu Oct 26 17:11:22 EDT 2000


On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Patrick McManus wrote:

> rm ?f2

No... that won't work because the shell expands it to -f2 and passes that
to rm.  Still bombs...  I like the other two though...  :)

And I thought there was a way to replace the '-' with the octal
representation (055) but I can't seem to get that to work... anyone know
how, or if I'm just smoking crack?


-- 
Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
martin at MissionCriticalLinux.com 

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