Bart Silverstrim wrote: [...]
I'm too paranoid that I know what *should* work wouldn't or would still end up deleting the original file I wanted, so I'd have to make a backup of the file and do it that way rather than play with escapes and quotes.
Cant' you escape the \ with a \? rm named.conf\\ ??
I think he did do that and it worked.
I was just commenting what my first instinct is to do. A few extra keystrokes, but it saves my peace of mind. I jump among too many
o/~ speaking words of wisdom o/~
I couldn't agree more. Another thing that no-one else has yet mentioned is
rm -i named.conf\\
which will force rm to prompt for a y/n response in order to proceed with the actual unlinking.
David
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