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Aucbvax.4102 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Sep 29 12:33:43 1981

>From ROBT@MIT-MC Tue Sep 29 11:52:48 1981 In light of the small amount of negative mail regarding my recent rm flames (believe it or not folks, most of the mail agreed) I thought I'd perform a service by mentioning a Unix-flavoured hack to avoid the rm * problem. Make your own shell file for mkdir, and have it do: for i in * mkdir touch -f /!!really\? done (with a "do" before the mkdir) If you're on an EBCDIC machine, it's not !! you want; I leave that as a problem fo rthe interested hacker.

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