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From: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@gmail.com>
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You're right. 'rm ./P' is much better or using '--' as the end of
arguments. I didn't know that.

Bahman

On 8/26/07, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
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> Bahman M. wrote:
> > What immediately came to my mind:
> > %  rm `find . -type f -name '-P'`
>
> This is just an excessively prolix way of running a command that
> outputs ./-P and then feeding the result into rm(1).  You can just type:
>
>    rm ./-P
>
> for heaven's sake...
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
>
> - --
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