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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail From: tundra@MCS.COM (Tim Daneliuk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: 16 Oct 1996 17:06:01 -0500 Organization: TundraWare Lines: 28 Message-ID: <543m89$qo7@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <543o1d$pe0@newsbr.eunet.fr> Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com In article <543o1d$pe0@newsbr.eunet.fr>, Frederic MARAND <fgm@osinet.fr> wrote: >sam@wa4phy.async.com (S.W. Drinkard) wrote: > > >>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? >Apart from the obvious rm ./--file some mentioned, and which should >work, a solution existed on SunOS 4, and that was using the >little-known command unlink, which passes its argument(s ?) straight >to an unlink() syscall. That worked, and if *BSD has it too, it should >work too. > >By the way, the symetrical link command allowed a (super)user to >create links to anything, including cyclic graphs in the file system >tree that fsck could not remove, and so on. Does it also exist on *BSD >? > > my hackish solution to this problem is rm -i * answering 'y' only to the bogus file 8-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk / tundra@tundraware.com Voicemail/FAX 847.827.1706