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Re: rm man page


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: rm man page
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:54:49 -0700
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Quel Qun <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> From: "Quel Qun" <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:08:00 -0800
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: rm man page

Oops.  Your Reply-To: will sucker *me* and possibly others into
breaking netiquitte.  Therefore I must first address this before
getting to your your bug report.  This may sound harsh but I am really
just trying help and have no other way to word it.

Was it intentional for you to set your Reply-To: to the cooker list?
If so then you should have CC'd that list with your first posting.
There was no need to set reply-to to that list, a simple CC would have
been the right thing to do.  I am not subscribed over there and it is
not appropriate to have my reply to your message be the start of a
thread.  Your message should have been the start of the thread and my
message a reply to it.  If you were trying to avoid getting a copy of
the message yourself then the Mail-Followup-To: header is the right
header to use in that case.

See the cooker FAQ for more information on cooker bug reporting
guidelines.  Specifically this section.

  http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerfaq.php3

  ...send your bug report as a message to the Cooker mailing list with
  a CC to the current maintainer of the package...

Therefore I ignored your header since I believe it was a mistake.  You
have my permission to forward this message to the cooker list yourself
if you desire.

> Just discovered today that rm support classes like rm *[aeiou]*
> Could this special case be added in the man page?
> Maybe ranges too if they are supported.
> =-=
> kk1

Thanks for the bug report report.  But I think you are confused.
Those metacharacters are expanded by the shell and not by rm.  Try
using 'echo' to see what they expand to before being handed to rm.

  echo *[aeiou]*

Remember that 'echo' is a shell builtin.  This type of example is
contained completely within the shell and no external commands are
called.  This way you can see exactly what the shell is doing before
calling a command.

Read the shell man page and look for the "Pattern Matching" section
for more information.

  man bash

HTH
Bob




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