Unable to delete LARGE folder

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 7 18:25:42 UTC 2011


On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 01:09:43PM -0500, Terrence Enger wrote:
> Some commands do their own wildcard expansion; I do not know if `rm` 
> is one of them.  So, whether it works or not, the shell should not 
> complain if you do `rm '*'`.

Very few commands in unix do wildcard expansion.  The shell always does
it so why implement it in any command?

rm certainly does not.

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