Said Justin Georgeson on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:54:27PM -0600, > I was trying to use the -j/--bzip2 option to tar and ended up created a file > named --bzip2. I can't move it or delete it, I've tried single and double quotes
Right. Quoting won't work because it's the program (i.e. "rm") that interprets options, not the shell. Try a full or relative pathname. Eg: $ rm ./--bzip2 Cheers. -- fingerprint: 740F B8D9 DF20 362C F5BC CDE6 6923 5A48 7657 541F lynx -source http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~jhs/public_key.gpg | gpg --import
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