Undeleteable file???

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:18:13PM -0400, Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> Len,
> 
> That did it! Thanks.
> I will now review the -i tag for rm. :)

interactive.

I think you had a space at the end of the filename, so rm -f filename
didn't delete anything.  rm filename should have said 'no such file'.

Quite likely rm "filename " would have worked.

So perfectly deletable as long as you specify the actual filename.

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Len Sorensen
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