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Re: Deleting quest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Tue Nov 12 09:43:32 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 12 Nov 1996 14:38:35 GMT
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In article <569uqp$1ad@halon.vggas.com>, jacques@linkage.ctech.ac.za says...
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>Hi there ..
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>There's no problem deleting files with a " - " in front, but
>how do you delete a file with a " ! " (exclamation) in front.
Use single quotes:-
rm '!foofile!funny_name!'
It's funny, all this is documented in the manual pages for Bash, but
I only figured out much of the information after the Nth reading. Command-line
processing is a reasonably complex process.
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