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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!math.fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!wiserner From: wiserner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernd Wiserner) Subject: Re: How do you rm a strange file? References: <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> <CGrCK8.JBC@mcs.anl.gov> <1993Nov20.195548.20444@newstand.syr.edu> Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem) Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 15:44:52 GMT Message-ID: <1993Nov21.154452.1970@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Lines: 17 In article <1993Nov20.195548.20444@newstand.syr.edu> smcarey@rodan.syr.edu (Shawn M Carey) writes: >In article <CGrCK8.JBC@mcs.anl.gov> winans@xray.aps.anl.gov (John R. Winans) writes: >>In article <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer 619 491 5161) writes: >>>... > > There is a "--" flag that appears to be undocumented in the >man page which tells rm to allow '-' as the first character of a >filename argument. > >% rm -- -lg > rm hubba-dubba "-f" ( hubba-dubba may be replaced iwth a filename which doesn't exist.) > >-Shawn Carey