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-rf

Posted April 4th, 2003 @ 08:34am by Erik J. Barzeski

Just don't create a file called -rf.
-- Larry Wall in <11393@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

I wonder how many years ago that was, because surely Larry knows that you can "rm -- -rf." But then again, in Perl, who knows. Maybe that'll cause issues. Anyway, how often has this ever come up? Who has ever named a file -rf?

This post is mostly a reminder to me to learn Perl again dammit. But it's kinda funny too.

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  1. | Reply Benjamin Kelly
    Posted 04 Apr 2003 at 4:35pm #

    Hmm. In circumstances where one ends up with some weird characters in a filename I always refer to it as ./FILENAME i.e. "rm ./-rf"


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