Subject: Re: "rm *" files "-f" and "-r" - weird behaviour...
To: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/20/2006 13:26:54 
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:24:17PM +0600, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> Thanks, now I understand :) I missed that '*' is actually resolved by shell 
> and no by rm. But from end user point of view this looks quite weird :)

Yes, it is one of the big items in "The Unix Haters Handbook".

Martin