Re:Re: helper function that should take a list argument doesn't do anything

[Patrick or Cynthia Karl]

On Nov 11, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Marc Hohl wrote:

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> Am 10.11.2012 14:49, schrieb David Kastrup:
>> [...]
>>> -i isn't an option of touch. It is an option of rm. The touch places 
>>> a file -i in the directory. At least with POSIX sort order, this is 
>>> bound to come rather early in a directory listing, so if you have 
>>> files a, b, c in the directory, rm * .o expands into rm -i a b c .o 
>>> It does not help much if you have a sort order where - gets ignored, 
>>> obviously. 
> Hey, that's clever!
> 
> Marc

Indeed, it is clever.  However, it doesn't seem to work on a mac running OSX 
10.7.5.  I find that the command "touch .\-i" creates a file called ".-i", 
which doesn't look like the "-i" option to the rm command.

I can get it to work with any of these commands:

        touch "-i"

        touch -- -i

        echo > -i

Pat