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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!manawatu.planet.co.nz!manawatu.gen.nz!news.express.co.nz!waikato!status.gen.nz!pinnacle.co.nz!not-for-mail From: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: 14 Oct 1996 09:46:25 +1300 Organization: Pinnacle Software Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand Lines: 14 Message-ID: <53rkf1$h69@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) In <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> sam@wa4phy.async.com (S.W. Drinkard) writes: >Ok, I'm not exactly a newbie, but I created a file with a filename of >"--remove-files" due to a blunder of the fingers. SysV would let me >remove it in quotes, or by matching a wildcard patern. I tried every >combination of rm/mv/whatever short of the 45-cal pistol. How does >*bsd do it? Well, all UNIX's appear to support: rm ./--whatever -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>