RE: RE: Re: [PLUG] escaping on teh commandline..

[peter.schawacker@citicorp.com]

Never mind.  I figured it out:

pwd
/blah
cd ..
rm blah/\-file

-----Original Message-----
From: peter.schawacker [mailto:peter.schawacker@citicorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:20 PM
To: plug
Cc: peter.schawacker
Subject: RE: RE: Re: [PLUG] escaping on teh commandline..


Okay, it's not funny anymore.  How do I get rid of this file?

-----Original Message-----
From: darxus [mailto:darxus@op.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:07 PM
To: plug
Cc: darxus
Subject: Re: Re: [PLUG] escaping on teh commandline..


On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Bill Jonas wrote:

> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Vale Kenny wrote:
> >
> > > again, this is probably old hat to most of you, but the key for me was
> the
> >
> > Good, now try creating a file beginning with "-" (in vi or something), and
> > try deleting it from the commandline :)
> > (frequent problem when mass downloading porn)
> 
> Wouldn't you just
> 
>     $ rm "-filename"

Hahaha.

Hah.

Funny.

Try it.

(created file called "-filename" (no quotes) w/ vi)

# rm "-filename"
usage: rm [-rif] file ...

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