[Tutor] valid filenames

[lumbricus@gmx.net]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:39:31AM +0200, lumbricus@gmx.net wrote:
> > | I was going to write that it would be a really bad idea to name a file
> > | '-rf ~&', but then I was afraid that someone would actually try it. A
> > 
> Oh damn *shudder*
> actually you can try it by locking that beast up in backtics and 
> using echo ?
> $ echo `rm -rfvv ~`
>               ^^
> 	      to get some output
> 
> grrrrrrreetings-to-all-the-m$-windoze-users-on-this-list-who-are-bored
> by-this-thread*wink*
> Jö!
> 

to make it clear this was a (OT) QUESTION!!!
not an advice