two questions

[Hemal Pandya]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:22:05 -0400, epilogue at allstream.net
<epilogue at allstream.net> wrote:
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> as requested...    (standard shell and standard user)
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> ~> mkdir test

Don't forget the leading hyphen. Try
~> mkdir -test
which will, of course, give you an error. then try
~> mkdir ./-test
and proceed as below...

> ~> rm ./-test
> rm: ./-test: No such file or directory
> ~> rm -- --test
> rm: --test: No such file or directory
> ~> rm -r test
> remove test? y
> ~> mkdir test
> ~> rm -rf test
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