using rm to remove a file that starts with a dash
Ray Hanes
high_tech_hanes at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 27 17:43:59 CDT 2001
Heres one I ran accross I ended up just deleating the file with a grapical interface but here is
what I had.
I had a file that was like -file.
Using the rm command kept telling me invalid switch. Here are the variations I tried
rm '-file'
rm "-file"
rm ./*file
None of these worked. I suppose I could have tried mv and renaming it to see if that would work.
Not a major problem here as I got it taken care of using graphical. I know I took the wimps way out
here.
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