Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!convex!news From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Message-ID: <1991Feb05.181324.2920@convex.com> Date: 5 Feb 91 18:13:24 GMT References: <43579@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Feb2.113410.23943@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <342@motto.UUCP> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Distribution: comp Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy): :Actually, I had a file called "-l" this morning, which obviously doesn't :work with "rm". $ rm ./-l This is in the FAQ. This isn't wizardly talk. Sigh. --tom -- "Still waiting to read alt.fan.dan-bernstein using DBWM, Dan's own AI window manager, which argues with you for 10 weeks before resizing your window." ### And now for the question of the month: How do you spell relief? Answer: U=brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu; echo "/From: $U/h:j" >>~/News/KILL; expire -f $U