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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to delete directories prefixed with a dash
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:57:42 +0100
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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> yeah, why use -- when ./ will do it?  no extra code for ./ unlike --

./ won't work with grep, or other commands that
take arguments that aren't filenames.

also, in a shell script,

	rm ./$1

isn't correct.

-- is standard.