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From: theo@integow.uucp (Theo Hardendood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: I have a file named "-"
Message-ID: <1485@integow.uucp>
Date: 4 Mar 91 19:12:52 GMT
References: <128.27C67FFF@petruz.sublink.ORG>
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From article <128.27C67FFF@petruz.sublink.ORG>, by zaphod@petruz.sublink.ORG (Pietro Caselli):
> In an article of <26 Feb 91 05:28:22 GMT> (Benjamin H. Cowan) writes:
> 
>  >  I have a file whose name consists of the single character "-".  I can't
>  >rm it or mv it or cat it or more it or anything to it.  How can I get rid 
>  >of
>  >it?
> 
> Just unlink It.
> 
Ah, read the manual of getopt. It is recommended that all programs
use these routines, and some *NIX utilities will.
Utilities using the getopt() routines have an "end of options option": --

Just try:

	rm -- -

Hope this helps

Cheers,
	Theo Hardendood
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