fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)

Lars P. Fischer fischer at iesd.uucp
Wed Nov 23 09:51:06 AEST 1988


In article <564 at comdesign.CDI.COM> pst at canary.cdi.com (Paul Traina) writes:
>From article <1232 at atari.UUCP>, by achar at atari.UUCP (Alan Char):
>< Actually, you can change the shell.  (Nowadays, that's more like three to
>< five things.)  For example, I would REALLY appreciate in csh a variable
>< 
>< 	set expandcheck=5
>< 
>However, 'rm -f * .o' means do it, yes I mean it, don't ask stupid questions.

#!/bin/csh
unset expandcheck
rm -f * .o

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Lars Fischer,  fischer at iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!diku!iesd!fischer
We must remove the TV-induced stupor that lies like a fog
across the land.		- T. H. Nelson



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