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Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund <sp2stes1@ida.his.se> writes:


>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Michlmayr <tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at> writes:
>In article <3kpfba$k85@jak.cosy.sbg.ac.at> tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin Michlmayr) writes:

>>> 12) Will hurd give one a way to ask if you really meant
>>> to say 'rm *'? How about other common stupid mistakes
>>> a unix person might do?

>Martin> This would be easy to implement. A few lines of code.

>Not that easy.
>Why ??
>You have to decide whom is gonna do this check.
>rm or the shell ??
>the shell does the expansion and forward it to rm as parameters.
>rm will find the list in argv.
>How is rm gonna know argv is the result of a * substitution.

We want to avoid that the user does `rm foo *` instead of `rm foo*`,
right?

Just let rm(1) abort when a filename is twice in the command line and
let rm(1) expand '*' by itself, see if all the files are on the
command line and abort when both '*' and some other filename in the
same directory are supplied.

Martin
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