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From: chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Removing a file with a leading "-" in the name
Date: 27 Feb 95 13:56:51
Organization: Telecom Australia
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In-reply-to: harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za's message of 23 Feb 1995 18:26:05 GMT
In article <3iijvt$f2r@owl.und.ac.za> harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Tony Harverson ) writes:
>An interesting version of this question I got out of a set of notes on a SCO
>course was this....
>
>use ls -i to find the inum of the file.
>find /path/ -inum <number> -exec rm {} \;
>It seems to work on most - anyone know of a case when it won't ?
This will work, but it's a heck of a lot harder to type than "rm ./-foo".
The "find" method might be good if the filename has other weird control
characters in it.
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Chris Bitmead
chrisb@ind.tansu.com.au