Re: Observations: rm--help:Deleting bulk files using rm

[James Youngman]

On 5/22/07, Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> > This does not, however, appear to answer his question as I parse it -
> > in paraphrase, "why does the --help output not provide this kind of
> > information?".
>
> Because the effect is not limited to rm, so "caveat regarding shell
> limitations" or something less wordy could arguably be added to the
> 35-ish coreutils which take a list of files.
>
> Ditto for "files which begin with a dash", "dotfiles not matched by *",
> and any other getopt or shell issue which applies to any app which
> understands lists of files in argv[].

Nod.  Perhaps on systems which by default alias "rm" to "rm -i", such
an alias could also print a random tip along these lines every time it
is invoked.

(yes, this is a joke)

James.