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From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: rm -R
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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....


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