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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Len Sorensen
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