[SunHELP] removing *

Sheldon T. Hall shel at cmhcsys.com
Fri Mar 28 22:45:57 CST 2003


Dale Ghent writes ...
> On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 22:55 US/Eastern, B wrote:
> 
> > How do you remove a file that is named *?  I almost did a rm * before 
> > thinking.  That would have been bad.
> 
> rm '*'

I'd be tempted to make that 

	rm -i '*'

just to be on the safe side....

-Shel


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