Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Eric B. wrote: Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 38879232 Nov 13

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Jan 22, 2008 11:46 AM, Eric B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:46:57AM -0500, Eric B. enlightened us: I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 22, 2008 8:46 AM, Eric B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Steven Haigh
On 23/01/2008, at 3:46 AM, Eric B. wrote: Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 38879232

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Greg Bailey
Benjamin Franz wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Eric B. wrote: Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Steven Haigh
On 23/01/2008, at 3:51 AM, Matt Hyclak wrote: The -- tells (most?) programs to stop processing options. This is listed as an example in the rm man page, so you should know that, right? I mean, you *did* read the man page This reminds me of a quote that always makes me laugh:

[CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 38879232 Nov 13 19:02 --newer=2007-11-08 Don't ask how

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Garl Grigsby
Eric B. wrote: Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 38879232 Nov 13 19:02