On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 11:40:01PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > 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
and > 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. ;) Silly, as soon as I pressed the sent button, I noticed that ./-i works just fine. However, the backslash does not work, so I'm not blamed so much. The solution I was thinking of was rm -- -i which prevents rm from interpreting -i as an option. Works fine, too. 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]
