Patrick or Cynthia Karl <pck...@mac.com> writes:
> On Nov 11, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Marc Hohl wrote:
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:10:44 +0100
>> From: Marc Hohl <m...@hohlart.de>
>> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: helper function that should take a list argument doesn't
>> do anything
>> Message-ID: <509f5d84.7050...@hohlart.de>
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>> Am 10.11.2012 14:49, schrieb David Kastrup:
>>> [...]
>>>> -i isn't an option of touch. It is an option of rm. The touch places
>>>> a file -i in the directory. At least with POSIX sort order, this is
>>>> bound to come rather early in a directory listing, so if you have
>>>> files a, b, c in the directory, rm * .o expands into rm -i a b c .o
>>>> It does not help much if you have a sort order where - gets ignored,
>>>> obviously.
>> Hey, that's clever!
>>
>> Marc
>
> Indeed, it is clever. However, it doesn't seem to work on a mac
> running OSX 10.7.5. I find that the command "touch .\-i" creates a
> file called ".-i", which doesn't look like the "-i" option to the rm
> command.
Sure it would. But I wrote
touch ./-i
which is quite different.
> I can get it to work with any of these commands:
>
> touch "-i"
No idea about OSX, but on GNU/Linux this will give you
dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ touch "-i"
touch: invalid option -- 'i'
Try `touch --help' for more information.
You could try
touch -- -i
instead, but ./-i is simpler.
--
David Kastrup
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