12 Jun
1998
12 Jun
'98
8:24 a.m.
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Jun 11, 23:25, Doug Yowza wrote:
First edition rm(1) did not support any flags. Neither did cp(1).
This is according to the man pages available at:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/1stEdman.html
It is pretty interesting. cp(1) appears to have supported copying files
to different locations with the same command. If I am reading this
correctly, it means that to copy foo to bar and baz to qux the command
cp foo bar baz qux
would work. Cool. cp * would be a lot of fun...
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:
I wish :-)
"-r" certainly was an option to "rm" in 7th Edition, and IIRC (see
other
thread :-)) "-i" overrides "-f" there too.
And "rm -i *" prompts even with
"-f".
Not on Linux, at least.
AFAIK, all rm's have -r.
I know -r is a fairly recent addition to "cp", but you may be right about
"rm". Anybody have a V1 system they can test on? :-)