On 2/4/06, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tracy R Reed wrote:
> > Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> >
> >> It's not a property of "rmdir", it is a property of the shell. You
> >> realize, of course, that you were asking perhaps the most Frequently
> >> Asked of all Frequently Asked Questions.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Years ago I too once asked this question. Don't recall where I found the
> > answer but it is a tricky one almost everyone asks at some point. How is
> > the special handling of -- a property of the shell? I thought the --
> > and -p and everything were just put into ARGV and rm itself parsed the
> > --. I just looked at getopt(3) and this seems to be the case. Any tool
> > that links in libgetopt for command line option parsing will get this
> > behavior.
>
> Well, the normal way around this is the "--" option which seems to be
> standard. However, that didn't work in the olden days ...
>
> The magic command to get rid of that file was:
> unlink
>
> Because unlink took no options.
>
The olde standard way to get rid of that file:
$ rm ./-p
Because the file name no longer begins with the - sign.
No muss, no fuss, no dirty hands.
carl
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