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> About this, I have a question, what happens if you have a corefile
>> whose name starts with a digit? I tried it and I get an error:


I suspect the best thing to do is use a similar trick as recommended by 
some RM manuals given a file called ``-rf .'' i.e.  ./1234567

enjoy,
Andrew