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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:36:00 -0400
From: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
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Subject: Re: "\rm -f" stops after the 1st glob not found
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At 11:11 +0000 17 Aug 2013, zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote:
>Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote in
>news:130816211320.ZM27930@torch.brasslantern.com:
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>>  ls *.{jpg,gif}(.N)
>
>Bart,
>Yeah that's what happened and confused me, of course if I was doing a
>delete that would/could be disastrous

How so?

ls with no (non-option) arguments will list the current directory.  rm 
with no arguments won't delete anything, it will just display an error 
message if the -f option wasn't used.