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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!uunet!newton.burton.frostburg.md.us!newton.burton.frostburg.md.us!not-for-mail From: brian@newton.burton.frostburg.md.us (Brian Burton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Removing a file with a leading "-" in the name Date: 26 Feb 1995 17:45:52 -0500 Organization: none Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3ir0b0$9f@newton.burton.frostburg.md.us> References: <1995Feb20.023938.20960@rai.juice.or.jp> <3iedls$hks@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <3ij68m$39g@news.parc.xerox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newton.burton.frostburg.md.us In article <3ij68m$39g@news.parc.xerox.com>, Peter MacLeod <macleod@adoc.xerox.com> wrote: >Lisa B. (lisab@ix.netcom.com) wrote: >: In <1995Feb20.023938.20960@rai.juice.or.jp> tetsuji@rai.juice.or.jp >: (Tetsuji Rai) writes: >: >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. > >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. > Many UNIX commands accept -- to mean "end of options" so you can use rm -- -.rej ++Brian