On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Rich Wellner wrote:
> Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Says you, where and how in pipo's name do you come to that
> > conclustion.???
>
> He probably did an ls .* and extrapolated the rest.
>
> What he didn't remember is that the .* gets expanded by the shell to
> everything in the directory named .* then the program gets the args.
>
> So ls gets .. in its args and says 'ls ..' which lists all those
> things he was worried about deleting, while rm says rm .. which isn't
> legal and warns you of that fact.
>
> That's my theory on what he was thinking anyway.
Possablly, just goes to show that some folks dont think before they
shout and possably dont even read the manual pages.
I cant imagen why he would think that tho' as cd .. is in DO$ also.
Thanks for the input.
> rw2
>
> --
> "Debugging is at least twice as hard as programming. If your code is
> as clever as you can possibly make it, then by definition you're not
> smart enough to debug it."
> -- Brian Kernighan
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Regards Richard
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