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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 2000年1月19日, Bill Jonas wrote: > > On 2000年1月19日, 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 ... __________________________________________________________________ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 darxus@op.net / http://www.op.net/~darxus Find the next largest prime, be famous: http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm "There is no spoon." ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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