[Off-topic] Re: removing garbarge in file system by inode number...

Rogerio Brito (rbrito@iname.com)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:50:30 -0200

On Oct 26 1999, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > Unix-101 trick: put a file called * in some newbys home directory.
> >
> You are too nice. Give them a file called "-fr ~/*" without quotes.
> The -fr part puts it before the "-i" file some people use as a
> safequard.
> The ~/ part means it works from subdirectories too...

Please shed some light on how one can put "/" (under normal
circumstances) as part of a filename. :-)

AFAIK, any well behaved system can't allow it (even though
"Unix Hater's Book" lists some horror stories with those
names). :-)

[]s, Roger...

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