On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:42:21PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > CW Harris wrote: [Snip] > thank you for the info. anyone know what the '--' option sigifies? I > notice it's not really documented in the man page. > m '--' instructs most utilities to stop parsing command options and treat everything after as just input. In the case of 'rm', '--' says basically that anything after that will be treated as a file to be removed. -- asg