GNU bug report logs - #6924
hi there is misstake in rm --help option

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Artur Kulikowski" <arkulik <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:19:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Artur Kulikowski" <arkulik <at> gmail.com>
To: <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: hi there is misstake in rm --help option
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:19:58 +0200

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Bug is here:

 

To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo',

use one of these commands:

  rm -- -foo

 

  rm ./-foo

 

the * marki s forgotten shouldn't it be : 

rm -- -foo* 

rm ./-foo*

??

Without * it didn't work for me

 

 

Artur Kulikowski

 


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