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? -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * 4.4BSD: Breaking many years of UNIX tradition! http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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