On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:37:00 +0530 (IST), Bharathi Subramanian
<sbharathi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
$ 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.
These wildcard expansions are actually performed by the shell. They
are better suited in a shell-related tip. rm does not do wildcard
expansions (for example, try rm 'f*') and hence their presence here
is misleading.