Re: A funny little mistake
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
root@flora:/tmp# rm -i
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
root@flora:/tmp# rm "-i"
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
root@flora:/tmp# rm '-i'
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
root@flora:/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
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