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dsw
dsw
Original authors	Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson
Developer	AT&T Bell Laboratories
Release	November 3, 1971; 54 years ago
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]

References

↑ A Brief History of the 'rm' and 'rmdir' commands
↑ 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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[1] A Brief History of the 'rm' and 'rmdir' commands

[reader-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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