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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!nsw1.news.telstra.net!sa.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: 14 Oct 1996 22:14:07 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <53udvf$85v@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <53oncv$fi5@newshost.lanl.gov> <N.101396.162611.72@scrantr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E scrantr@ix.netcom.com (Richard Scranton) wrote: > You have two easy choices: > rm ./--remove-files > rm -i *remove-files Even a third one (the `generic' method of making an argument starting with a dash not being considered an option): rm -- --remove-files It's basically the same as in SysV, so i wonder that the original poster didn't figure this out... It's described in intro(1) in the SysV manual. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)