tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (02/27/91)
From the keyboard of dean@po.CWRU.Edu: :> :>Here's an answer and I've tested it: rm ./- : :What's wrong with 'rm - -filename'??? It's in TFM and works under :SUN OS, AIX, and Ultrix. I assume it works under others too, but :I only have access to those 3 at the moment. Because not all programs interpret dash that way. Consider "tar f -". On the other hand, all programs will handle "./-" because it's in the kernel (namei, lookuppn, or whatever your local flavor is) that this is "recognized". :I don't think this qualifies as a dumb answer (it is the way TFM says :to do it.) And I don't think it's a flame either. Just a simple :way of doing the deed, and an explination of a feature put into :rm to get around this particular problem. Please expline why comp.unix.wizards should be the place for people to post REALLY TRIVIALLY SIMPLE QUESTIONS ABOUT UNIX that they could have: read in the manual read in the faq asked at their site posted to comp.unix.questions I now clearly see why we should have let c.u.wizards die: it just attracts this kind of noise. What real wizard is really going to wade through the dreck to get at the good stuff. We've had about one of these a day lately in this group. Let's rename it to comp.unix.ask-the-wizards, and then the rest of us can go off to comp.unix.internals where they won't know to find us. :-) --tom -- "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
data@buhub.bradley.edu (Mark Hall) (02/27/91)
In <1991Feb26.194033.9539@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: > read in the faq I haven't seen the FAQ for here...No big deal... >We've had about one of these a day lately in this group. Let's rename it >to comp.unix.ask-the-wizards, and then the rest of us can go off to >comp.unix.internals where they won't know to find us. :-) But you just told us where to find you! =-) I wouldn't consider myself a "wizard" but rather someone rather familiar with Unix in general. I don't usuall post, because I don't have a burning question I need to ask, but I do feel that by reading about those things that interest me that I can learn even more, and become a little more knowledgeable about this interesting OS. (and all of its variants!) Let's get some wizard-level stuff going! This group DOES have a worthwhile function, at least to me. -- | I'nt: data@{bucs1,buhub,heartland}.bradley.edu, al632@cleveland.freenet.edu | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | F'net : 1:232/28 1:2250/9 (fname.lname@f<node>.n<net>.z<zone>.fidonet.org) | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, but Captain, | | it makes no sense!" "But Spock, with Santa, ALL things are possible!" | | Kirk and Spock...Hallmark Greeting Cards |
sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) (02/27/91)
>I haven't seen the FAQ for here...No big deal...
I post the monthly FAQ to "comp.unix.questions" only, since it is,
after all, Unix questions.
In the old days when we had only comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.wizards,
I posted it to both in an attempt to help people sort out which
topics go to which groups. Now that we have about 20 different
comp.unix.* groups, some of which have or may develop their own
FAQ lists, I decided that "comp.unix.questions" was the best spot
for the old list.
I like to think of it as a "meta-FAQ" for all the other comp.unix.* groups.
Steve "FAQ guy" Hayman