Re: [PLUG] delete unusual file name

["Mag Gam" <magawake@gmail.com>]

What about, 

find . -name "*thisfilewontdelete*" -exec rm {} \;
(not tested, but I think you get the idea)

On 6/28/07, Antony P Joseph <antony@panathara.org> wrote:

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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