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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!tct!chip
  3. From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
  4. Subject: Re: DDEBs (DON'Ts, DON'T EVERs, & BEWARES)
  5. Message-ID: <2A925E81.43D1@tct.com>
  6. Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:45:21 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug11.091207.29484@colorado.edu> <Bstv3p.2KD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug12.012136.21563@tc.cornell.edu>
  8. Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
  9. Lines: 15
  10.  
  11. According to hargrove@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Paul H. Hargrove):
  12. >You're even better off (assuming bash) doing
  13. >$ echo silly?file*
  14. >sillyXfile1a    sillyYfile1b    sillyZfile327a  sillyqfileTHX1138
  15. >$ rm !$  (or !* for multiple wildcards)
  16.  
  17. Even better:
  18. $ echo silly?file*
  19. sillyXfile1a    sillyYfile1b    sillyZfile327a  sillyqfileTHX1138
  20. $ rm <ESC>. [expands to the last word on the previous line]
  21.  
  22. -- 
  23. Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  24.    "Do Rush place weird subliminal backmasked messages in their songs to
  25.  compel unwilling geeks to commit evil .sig atrocities?"  -- Dean Engelhardt
  26.