Re: [Wlug] deleting a file named "--exclude"

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:58:30AM -0400, Jim Dibb wrote:

Doesn't rm ??exclude, or rm *exclude work, if you only have the one file with exclude in it?

No, because the shell will expand it to --exclude before passing it to the application which will then see it as an option. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Memory error on Brain1 - R)boot, S)mack upside the head.