Dsw (command)

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dsw
Original authors Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson
Developer AT&T Bell Laboratories
Initial releaseNovember 3, 1971;54 years ago (1971-11-03)
Operating system Unix
Type Command

dsw (delete from switches) is an obsolete Unix shell command which enables deletion of files with non-typeable characters. The command debuted in Unix Version 1 and was replaced by adding the -i option to rm [1] in Version 7. Doug McIlroy wrote that dsw "was a desperation tool designed to clean up files with unutterable names". [2]

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  1. ↑ A Brief History of the 'rm' and 'rmdir' commands
  2. ↑ McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 (PDF) (Technical report). CSTR. Bell Labs. 139.
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