Re: A funny little mistake
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:
>
> root@flora:/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
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