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Re: Remove funny files



On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:49:55AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote:

> Umm... wouldn't a simple

>    rm '--excude=files.txt'

> work??

No.  The problem is rm trying to interpret --exclude as an option, not
the shell being clever.

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