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From: macleod@adoc.xerox.com (Peter MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Removing a file with a leading "-" in the name
Date: 23 Feb 1995 23:37:58 GMT
Organization: Xerox Desktop Document Systems, Palo Alto, CA
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Lisa B. (lisab@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: In <1995Feb20.023938.20960@rai.juice.or.jp> tetsuji@rai.juice.or.jp
: (Tetsuji Rai) writes:
: >
: >
: >Hi all,
: > The title says it all. I wonder how to remove a file with "-" in the
: >begining of file name (such as "-foo"). You must not program for
: that.
: >Simply use unix commands. I just made a file "-.rej" by mistake, and
: >wondering how to erase it without programming. Somehow rm recognizes
: >"-" character as an option.
: >
: >-Tetsuji
: >
: use a back slash rm \-.rej
^^^^^^^^^
This won't work.
You can say:
% rm ugh -.rej
rm: ugh: No such file or directory
but it will still remove "-.rej", at least on my workstation. "rm" doesn't
look for "-" after it sees a non "-" argument.
-- Peter