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Aucbvax.4052 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Fri Sep 25 20:31:23 1981 Re: rm and shell metacharacters >From greep@SU-DSN Fri Sep 25 20:17:14 1981 Having "deleted" files "expunged" at "logout" (to use tenex terminology) causes problems if the same user is logged in at more than one terminal at a time. These files can be removed by a daemon program in the middle of the night, if there is enought disk space for all the "deleted" files that may accumulate during the day.

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