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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:42:57 -0800
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
To:        Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rm with no arguments...
Message-ID:  <19990127074257.B27634@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990127135354.7514745CB3@pobox.com>; from Jon Hamilton on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:53:54AM -0600
References:  <199901270833.IAA01052@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> <19990127135354.7514745CB3@pobox.com>

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On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:53:54AM -0600, Jon Hamilton wrote:

> >From a purist point of view, I suppose you're correct.  The down side
> is that this breaks with many years of UNIX tradition.  The code and
> the man page should both be fixed IMO.

Even the 4.4BSD sources in our tree display usage with "-f" and
no filename.  Exactly how traditional is the behaviour you want?

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