Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote:
Hi lists
How can I delete file named prefix with "-" ?
If you had bothered to read the manpage for rm(1) you would already
know that since the following paragraph appears there:
The rm command uses getopt(3) to parse its arguments, which allows it to
accept the --' option which will cause it to stop processing flag
options at that point. This will allow the removal of file names that
begin with a dash (-'). For example:
rm -- -filename
The same behavior can be obtained by using an absolute or relative path
reference. For example:
rm /home/user/-filename
rm ./-filename
I've never run across that.
% cd tmp
% ls
% touch -
% ls
-
% rm -
% ls
%
although if it was giving you trouble, I suppose you could do a
rm ./\-
--
David Piniella
University of Miami
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