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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to delete directories prefixed with a dash
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:32:31 +0100
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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> ... but grep understands \\:-).

and...?

> > 	rm ./$1
> > 
> > isn't correct.
> 
> Why not?

'cos you might want to give an argument that's not relative
to the current directory?