Worm/Passwords

[Patrick Barron]

In article <466 at yarra.oz.au> cm at yarra.oz.au (Charles Meo) writes:
>Why not put something in rm to check for the '*' token by itself and say
>something like:
>
>Are you sure y/n?

The 'rm' command never sees the '*', since wildcard expansion is done by
the shell.  For instance, if your current directory contains "this_file",
"that_file", and "other_file", and you type "rm *", what the 'rm' command
actually sees is "rm other_file that_file this_file".  That is, it doesn't
know a wildcard was used.

--Pat.