Question

Which of the following command will remove the file named * ?

(a) rm *

(b) rm ‘*’

(c) rm *

(d) rm ‘*’ and rm *

Answer 1

Right choice is (d) rm ‘*’ and rm *

The explanation: To suppress the nature of wildcard * we can use either escaping or quoting. The symbol will suppress the feature of wildcard and will remove the file named *. Similarly using quoting we can turn off the meaning of the meta character.