On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 11:44:55PM +0800, The Thought Assassin wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: > > > the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not > > > try to expand anything directly after a backslash. > > This is the best thing to try first - although I have seen some things > > that even this won't work on. > > > > Chris > > Such as what?
WHOA! This is my chnace to present my most stupid mistake: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# cat /dev/null > -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# rm -i rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# rm "-i" rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# rm '-i' rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# rm \-i rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. It took me some time to deal with it. There is a trick. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader. Hint: It is possible with rm. ;) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
