On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Security Analyst wrote: > simply name files after common command arguments... below i made an > executable and named it "--help" wich just happens to be one of the > "rm" arguments. so- whenever i try to delete this file from the > command line, i just get the "rm" help menu > To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', > use one of these commands: > rm -- -foo > > rm ./-foo
You are posting the answer :-) rm -- --help This must be a kind of a joke. -- -- Alexandre Dulaunoy (adulau) -- http://www.foo.be/ -- http://pgp.ael.be:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x44E6CBCD -- "Knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance -- that we can solve them" Isaac Asimov _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
