[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (RM)

  • From: masatran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Masatran, R. Deepak)
  • Date: Sat Jun 21 14:14:06 2008

* Bharathi Subramanian <sbharathi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-06-20

$ rm f? -- Remove all files, whose name start with f and 
           followed by single char.

$ rm f* -- Remove all files, whose name starting with f.

It would be better if you indicated that wildcard expansion is done by the
shell, and not by "rm".

-- 
Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>


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