Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 15:43:50 -0500 From: David Tilbrook <dmtilbrook@gmail.com> To: "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> Cc: Jos Chrispijn <kernel@webrz.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rm -R Message-ID: <CAAPNFHQLW7bDmWQ6UvLiSbk38F6h67EzXAfwfRLmQCijLTcBcg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EBE870@ltcfiswmsgmb21> References: <51321FAE.2010803@webrz.net> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EBE870@ltcfiswmsgmb21>
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Wjy are we syill having this conversation?
The problem (and its solution) have been
raised for at least 39 years.
To specify a file, directory, device, whatever,
whose leaf name begins with a `-', name it using
a leading `./' as in:
whatever ./-S
That will work for all programs, even those that
do not support -- to terminate flags.
Furthermore it will support glob patterns.
Now was that so difficult?
-- dt
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