From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 3 03:18:57 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE27CEA4 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 03:18:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ia0-x233.google.com (mail-ia0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c02::233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B883ED for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 03:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f179.google.com with SMTP id x24so3850852iak.10 for ; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:18:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1hZIW+2Va5vIM6a/yKJPZ+VhNh40pdHphSsv+EiQ1gg=; b=Azpe5suXDNuh7vU6ryp3IKwwPH6MoBR3MTcMQaaKOwHj9ZRZxtlgJbsjUyzNkygsUY 800wppELdJ2ns7jBtAhGsbuI4CbDEUfiimJ+1MRKVVDwgyMOv2oCJy/QwFrq452Y7553 ytvsk3aA3sxJPzgAF1zboLQJjp0+rciSb8R8wSWx95iiOxEDoKTznGFnrxw944Fj2ZeK 3OG6kohE0p0IV1hct5NpZo8LrFVGGVSg3r1Sw/4AR0bNmZ7RHDtXEJ/8onX7n+gLGKOw vOtkL+3eALqppFL/CA0o/Zyy4dE83JyH3C7Re6Sb+tbcX51pgJP1VNsccBC/bY2bTu/G TmsA== X-Received: by 10.43.117.136 with SMTP id fm8mr18992824icc.33.1362280736421; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:18:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (c-98-212-197-211.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i10sm4599662igz.9.2013.03.02.19.18.55 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:18:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5132C11B.4050808@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:18:51 -0600 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline Subject: Re: rm -R References: <51321FAE.2010803@webrz.net> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EBE870@ltcfiswmsgmb21> <5132AAD6.5060301@gmail.com> <20130303022715.GA913@ethic.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20130303022715.GA913@ethic.thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:18:57 -0000 On 3/2/2013 8:27 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 07:43:50PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: >> On 3/2/2013 2:43 PM, David Tilbrook wrote: >>> The problem (and its solution) have been >>> raised for at least 39 years. >> >> But google and other search engines treats words([A-Za-z0-9]) >> starting with - as meaning exclude results with this, even when >> obvious it's about unix commands. It can be rather annoying when >> searching for help. >> _______________________________________________ > > > sorry to be so dense; can you give me a few concrete examples? ya > lost me! > > tx.... > Start with basics, http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=rm+-rf now find something relevant even though `rm -rf` is so common under unix. Oddly, `rm -S` gives the wikipedia webpage first. It doesn't mention anything about -- or using ./ to delete files. The man page lists is, so the "true" documentation is sound, but if you're looking on the internet you have to know how to search.