Computational complexity of rm & ls

[David C Lawrence]

In article <1541 at zen.UUCP> frank at zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes:
frank> Maybe adding a '-A' (for All, harder to type than '-a') option
frank> to rm would be justified.  No doubt doing so would break
frank> jillions of scripts.

I realize that there is a smiley there, but why should adding -A or -a
break any scripts at all?  Doesn't seem that anyone should have it as
a flag to rm in a script.

        
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