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Re: [LUG] grep and dreadful command line skills

 

Michael Mortimore wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:27:20 -0000, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Afraid the time honoured use of "." is in my command line muscle memory
>>
>> "rm ./-rf"
> 
> Do you end up doing this by accident?
> 
> yatt@lapeee:~/tmp$ rm ./-rf mydir
> rm: cannot remove `./-rf': No such file or directory
> rm: cannot remove `mydir': Is a directory

No, but only because hitting tab is even more deeply embedded...

What I actually type is "rm ./-<TAB>"

Which gets me: rm ./-rf\ mydir

Indeed I sometimes hit tab when I'm not sure what to type next, quite
often bash does the right thing!

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