On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 14:43, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~. Experimenting
> with something I've now forgotten I guess.
>
> Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c, -k.
>
> I've tried as many styles of escaping as I could come up with but all
> are rejected like this:
>
> rm \-c
> rm: illegal option -- c
> usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...
>
> Ditto for:
>
> [\-]c
> '-c'
> *c
> '-'c
> \075c
>
> OK, I'm out of escapes. or other tricks... other than using emacs but
> I haven't installed emacs as yet.
>
> I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
> installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a
> shell prompt.
rm ./-O ./-c ./-k
or pass an entire path.
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