My idea of a safety feature for rm(1): To solve the problem of doing rm foo * instead of rm foo* Look at what the commandline arguments are. If at least - one is appearing twice - or at least one is not appearing at all , then do a "*" expand like from a shell (not perfect of course not easy enough) and see whether all elements of "*" are there *plus* others with no "/". If so, the above situation occured and you only go ahead with a special flag. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer_at_cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/Received on Tue Sep 25 2007 - 16:57:36 UTC
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