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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (Igor Vladim Roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The Ineterest Task Date: 19 Jun 1996 14:28:29 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 20 Distribution: su Message-ID: <4q92qd$ep1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <199606171939.CAA07332@ricc.alma-ata.su> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ivan Lebedev (ivan@ricc.alma-ata.su) wrote: : Hello to EveryBody! : I saw a disscussion about "*" file's name and I found one more problem with : file's name. If I packing some files with directories by "tar" and write at : end of the command line "--remove-files" like "tar -cf --remove-files" I got : a file - archive wich I need but it have name "--remove-files". What I need to : do with that file for deleting him or renaming. : (I made "cat < --remove-files > x.tar") : Is anyone know another way? : DiXi I didn't try for this type of name, but usually deleting files via ftp is possible. (I mean even with such a name) IgoR aka StR