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Re: [PLUG] delete unusual file name
this worked great - thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff McAdams <jeffm@iglou.com>
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:00:22 PM GMT-0500
Subject: Re: [PLUG] delete unusual file name
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 "-"
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Jeff McAdams
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W. Chris Shank
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