Antony P Joseph on 29 Jun 2007 02:09:49 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] delete unusual file name


On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff McAdams wrote:
> W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > ok - this is really dumb. through some erroneous scripting i ended up creating a few files that begin with a - sign. ie: -thisfilewontdelete. any clues how to delete it? 
> 
> rm -- <filename>
> 
> the "--" tells rm to treat further arguments as file names, even if they
> start with a "-"
> _
if rm does not support -- , please try rm ./-filename

With regards
Antony
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