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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.corpcomm.net!news From: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: 12 Oct 1996 07:55:00 -0500 Organization: Corporate Communications Lines: 11 Sender: zach@bedrock.gaffaneys.com Message-ID: <87pw2omjff.fsf@bedrock.gaffaneys.com> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup8.gaffaneys.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.89) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 S W Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.async.com> writes: > Ok, I'm not exactly a newbie, but I created a file with a filename > of "--remove-files" due to a blunder of the fingers. SysV would let > me remove it in quotes, or by matching a wildcard patern. I tried > every combination of rm/mv/whatever short of the 45-cal pistol. How > does *bsd do it? You presumably tried: rm ./--remove-files