Help!!!

CRCHPUX System Manager mkb at hoss.unl.edu
Thu Mar 8 04:26:40 AEST 1990


Here are some more (hopefully) helpful suggestions for the user with the
"-files.doc" problem:

1.	Some UNIX versions have a nice option with "rm" that is just for
this situation, this is the minus (-) option.  (Ultrix-32 is one such 
implementation).  All that is needed to remove files whose names begin 
with a "-" is this:
		rm - -files.doc

2.	Try   rm -i *.doc
This will ask for a yes or no response before deleting any files.

************************************************************************
Sincerely,

Mary Beardslee  [  mkb at hoss.unl.edu ]
UNIX Systems Manager
University of Nebraska-Lincoln



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