-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2/23/2007 10:13 PM: > I was tagging some files from a directory, and, by mistake I called it > > --remove-files. When I try to use unlink --remove-files to delete that file, > I am > > not able to do it. >
This is a FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#I-have-a-file-called-_003cspan-class_003d_0022option_0022_003e_002d_002dhelp_003c_002fspan_003e_002e-How-do-I-remove-it_003f You can use either: $ rm -- --remove-files or $ rm ./--remove-files or use unlink in place of rm. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF38wT84KuGfSFAYARAvQLAKCda92AmJlpkdPgaIRC/xo8cXDMWwCfVYk1 PGKLuYNtlEvspkwkidy7VEc= =F9kz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
