File from MacHell

Robert Hartman rhartman at thestepchild.sgi.com
Thu Jun 27 03:57:05 AEST 1991


In article <DrPHILLIPS.91Jun25170624 at fozzie.nrl.navy.mil> phillips at fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) writes:
>I ftp'd to a Macintosh ... I got a list of
>files, including one with a trailing asterisk.
> ... I tried to delete it with rm, using
>every combination of quoting and escaping and globbing that I knew ...

In csh, say:

set noglob ; rm Hellfile* ; unset noglob

-r



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