[Gllug] rm -R not working on Fedora

[Garry Heaton]

>When, you are in 'exdir' your command expands to

>>  rm -R file1.txt

>> Which obviously won't match 'subdir/file2.txt', so again
>> you need to quote the command

>>  rm -R '*.txt'

>> Regards,
>> Dan.

I tried it with single quotes, ie.

rm -R '*.txt'

... and it doesn't even remove any file within the current directory with a
.txt suffix. I get the error:

rm: cannot remove `*.txt': No such file or directory

Garry



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