On 26/06/11 19:25, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote:
<snipped> > You can't have tried very hard then: 'touch -- "-rf *"'. > <snipped> > > Cheers, > Tom > You are (also) correct. Turns out there's a number of ways to do that. What does the "--" do?? Both:- $ touch "-rf *" and:- $ touch -- "-rf *" work - so "--" doesn't "appear" to do anything, yet it produces no error. Strange - I'd expect an error at least. Cheers -- You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know. During the Persian Gulf war, those intelligence reports would come out: "Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons." "How do you know that?" "Uh, well … we looked at the receipts. But as soon as that check clears, we're goin' in. What time's the bank open? Eight? We're going in at nine. ~ Bill Hicks on the Gulf War -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e071bed.3050...@gmail.com
