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From: kdeyoe@tjhsst.vak12ed.edu (Kelly DeYoe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Unix problem
Summary: How to fix leading '-' in file names
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.124135.7732@tjhsst.vak12ed.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 91 12:41:35 GMT
References: <14425@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
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In article <14425@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> wangjw@ifestos.cs.purdue.edu () writes:
>Hi,
>
>  I was using the X-window and somehow generated some garbage files. I
>cannot remove some files because these files are named "-C", "-f" etc.
>Can someone tell me how to remove these garbages? 
>
>  Thanks.
>
>Jingwen Wang
>
>wangjw@cs.purdue.edu


To get rid of these files, or simply be able to rename them to
something more managable, you can go to the parent directory and
manipulate them that way.  i.e.:

cd ..
rm dir/-C (assuming you started in directory dir)

and *poof*, it's gone. . .

KD