From: orre@nada.kth.se (Roland Orre) Subject: Re: rm -i not working 24 Oct 1996 23:55:38 -0700 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199610250554.HAA06367.cygnus.gnu-win32@sans07.nada.kth.se> Reply-To: orre@nada.kth.se (Roland Orre) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-CC: Colman Curtin Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Colman Curtin wrote: >>Has any one noticed the following problem: >> ~/mydir> rm -i foo.bar >>doesn't work! >> >>-- >>Weiqi Gao >>weiqigao@crl.com >> >Yes I saw this too but if you type >~/mydir> rm -i foo.* >it will work for the 2nd and successive files found. >after that I don't know. > >Coley. Yes, I noticed this when I downloaded beta16. This seem to be some kind of CR-LF file handling (EOL?) problem. If you do: ~/mydir> rm -i foo.* and end with a linefeed (Cntrl-J) instead of CR it works fine. The problem is probably within bash because if you do the same in a DOS shell it works fine. Roland - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".