[PLUG] What does this mean?

Matt Alexander m at pdxlug.org
Sun Feb 1 14:23:02 UTC 2004


On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   In a directory, as root, I tried to execute the following command:
>                                     rm .~
> 
> Instead of having all backup files deleted, I saw this:
>               rm: cannot lstat `.~': No such file or directory
> 
>   I'd like to learn what I broke (probably related to the mass movement of
> /usr/local from the RH 7.3 system to the Slack 9.1 system) that affects rm.
> 
>   Any ideas? I can remove the files if I specify each one fully, but not
> with a wildcard expansion.

Try adding the wildcard.  ;-)

rm .~*





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