GNU bug report logs - #10819
[BUG][RM]

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "jeremy.magrin <at> epitech.eu" <jeremy.magrin <at> epitech.eu>

Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 10819 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Davide Brini <dave_br <at> gmx.com>
Cc: 10819 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10819: [BUG][RM]
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:38:24 +0100

Davide Brini wrote:
...
> At least in bash, but I suppose in other shells too,
>
> rm -rf #*
>
> treats the "#*" part as a comment, and (if you remove the "-f") complains
> about missing operand to rm.

That is the default, but for an interactive shell,
that behavior can be changed:

    $ echo a b # c
    a b
    $ shopt -u interactive_comments
    $ echo a b # c
    a b # c
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