Nickolas Wanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Just emailing to let you know of a problem i've encountered in the argument parsing
|algorithms of quite a few of the gnu fileutils on a linux system.
|
| If you specify a file / directory name starting with a dash, even if it is within
|quotes, the parsing algorithm will assume it is an argument option, and
| issue an invalid option message.
|
| I am assuming this is a bug and not by design, based on my experiences based on this
|problem -- when I found a file simply called "-o"
| on my drive, I could not get rid of it with any of the gnu file utilities, so I just
|had to write my own program which unlink()'d it..
|
| Anyway, I hope that helps, anymore info required and i'll be glad to be of
|assistance.
It's not a bug.
Refer to the file with a leading `./'. E.g.,
rm ./-o
Most tools let you use `--' like this, too:
rm -rf -- -o
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