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Archive for March 11th, 2026

Delphi documentation: GetIt Local files – Google Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/11

This [Wayback/Archive] GetIt Local files – Google Docs is so much better than the [WayBack/Archive] DocWiki documentation for at least these reasons:

  • it is one coherent document
  • it is complete and does not cut away parts of the source code examples (especially the JSON in the DocWiki is bad)

I wish it had been a Markdown or reStructuredText document as that is far more version control friendly.

Hopefully it will stay on-line longer than [Archive] drive.google.com/file/d/1Pt0YOMfS1eJK7e-NyLrZ5dNOj6UlqN1U/view| or the DocWiki documentation of prior Delphi versions. For more on that, read this blog post: The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day..

If you are curious to the DocWiki documentation on the GetIt Local files, then read these:

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Posted in Delphi, Development, GetIt, Software Development | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Unix/MacOS: “rm: illegal option — b” or how to remove files that have their name starting with a minus sign.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/11

I had to remove all text files including a -bar.txt from the current directory using bash, so I automatically typed rm *txt resulting in this nice error:

rm: illegal option -- b
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
       unlink file

When there was just a file named -foo.txt in the directory, the error became more interesting:

rm: illegal option -- o
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
       unlink file

Then it struck me: rm is one of those old tools where you can smack all options together. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, bash, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User | Leave a Comment »