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From:	Eric Lilja <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:	Simple rm question, removing files that end with a tilde even if they start with a dot
Date:	Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:26:20 +0100
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Why doesn't this work? I want to remove .bashrc~ (ls has been aliased to 
include -AF):
hivemind AT mindcooler ~
$ ls
.bash_history   .bashrc*   .emacs*    .emacs.elc*  .ssh/
.bash_profile*  .bashrc~*  .emacs.d/  .inputrc*    coding/

hivemind AT mindcooler ~
$ rm *~
rm: cannot remove `*~': No such file or directory

Obviously I can remove it by naming the file explicitly but I want to 
know why the lines I pasted above doesn't work so I learn something. :-)
rm has not been aliased

/ Eric Lilja


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