Soln:
# rm ./ "-r*"
# rm -- "-r*"
Well some of you got it while and the others... PLEASE pkgrm that GUI and start
hitting those books!
2 Methods
Given 2 files. -F and ---wow (YES they can be created!)
I. Hiding in the directory
rm "./file"
$ rm ./ -F
$ rm "./ ---wow"
By placing the ./ (dot, slash) infront of the filename you hide the option and treat
it as part of the file. The lines remove the file (not the option) from the current
directory. Whenever in doubt, quotation marks (" ") help define the file and should be
used.
II. Fighting a Dash with a Dash
rm -- file
$ rm -- -F
$ rm -- ---wow
The double dash before the file will treat it as a file and not as an option. it
treats what UNIX thinks is an option as a file.
Kiggundu Mukasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hell NO!!!!, but that is a good one :=)
>
>On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 21:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> You only have 5 seconds to answer this one...
>>
>> On using ls -l if you find a file called -r* at the root level of the directory
>> tree how would you remove it?
>>
>> -rw------- � �1 root � � root � � � � 5910 Sep 18 00:00 -r*
>>
>> Note
>> You have no GUI installed.
>>
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