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To: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>
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Subject: Re: rm a file named "-l"? ;-)
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Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> writes:

> >A quicker way would be to use unlink(1)
> 
> Thought I would give an example for clarity:

Well thanks for that; that's better for this case, but the wildcard
method works when the filename starts with (or contains) an unknown
character like ctrl-M, which you can get in there with the Xemacs shell,
for example ;-(.

IIRC, the SGI unlink could unlink a huge directory in a split second
(and you'd run "fsck" later to clean up the left-overs), while I notice
this one doesn't work on directories at all.

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