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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!psinntp!newstand.syr.edu!rodan.syr.edu!smcarey From: smcarey@rodan.syr.edu (Shawn M Carey) Subject: Re: How do you rm a strange file? Message-ID: <1993Nov20.195548.20444@newstand.syr.edu> Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY References: <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> <CGrCK8.JBC@mcs.anl.gov> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 19:55:48 EST Lines: 20 In article <CGrCK8.JBC@mcs.anl.gov> winans@xray.aps.anl.gov (John R. Winans) writes: >In article <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer 619 491 5161) writes: >>... >>Any clues how to rm it? > >How about "rm -i *" and say 'n' to everything except the one you want >to get rid of? Either that or use wildcards. If you are root in a nasty >spot, like /etc or /bin, I HIGHLY recommend the use of the -i flag! > There is a "--" flag that appears to be undocumented in the man page which tells rm to allow '-' as the first character of a filename argument. % rm -- -lg I believe I discovered this option in the man page for sunos 4.1. Fortunately we have the functionality if not the documentation. -Shawn Carey