[plug] Scary Stuff

Grahame Bowland grahame at ucs.uwa.edu.au
Thu Dec 6 12:18:21 WST 2001


On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 12:14, Anthony Jones wrote:
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> Oops.. didn't notice the subtle '?'
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> I've had them before.  They're a pain to delete if you've got other 
> single-letter directories.  I think I just went:
> 
> rm -fR ?

If in doubt, run "echo ?" and then you'll know what your shell is
globbing it to.

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