On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I'm having a brain freeze tonight and apparently forgot some
> basic UNIX commands..
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> what is the command to remove the file "--directory"
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> rm *directory* = nope
> rm "*directory*" = nope
> rm \-\-\direc
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:51:09 -0400, epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:29:35 -0700
> Hemal Pandya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> &g
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:24:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > > > what is the command to remove the file "--directory"
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:22:05 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> as requested...(standard shell and standard user)
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> ~> mkdir test
Don't forget the leading hyphen. Try
~> mkdir -test
which will, of course, give you an error. then try
~> mkdir ./-test
and proceed
I was interested in this for a slightly different reason --- I would
like to allow some users to ssh into my machine so they can port
forward but not allow them to actually login to the machine.
I found
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200206210808.g5L88SJ15420_splat.grant.org%40ns.sol.net
to
man expr
man bc
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:41:02 -0700, CD Baby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> What simple built-in command-line tools are available if I want to
> just do some simple math on the command line?
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> If I'm there in a shell, and need to know what 17 times 36 equals?
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