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From: Martin Husemann <martin@euterpe.owl.de>
Subject: Re: Little prob with rm
To: jnemeth@cue.bc.ca (John Nemeth)
Cc: rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl, current-users@netbsd.org
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> I totally disagree with this. It is a major violation of the
> rule of least astonishment, as it is a major change to UNIX filesystem
> semantics.
BUT - there are major ``applications'' (like tcsh) which expand pat<tab>
to path/ (the only real thing they can do at this stage from the ergonomic
point of view - not knowing if the user will move down deeper in the tree)
I *do* prefer the SVR4 way of ignoring trailing slashes.
Martin
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