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From: zebr360@ut-emx.uucp (Jerry Heyman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Unix problem
Message-ID: <47608@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 22 Apr 91 04:11:26 GMT
References: <14425@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1991Apr21.124135.7732@tjhsst.vak12ed.edu>
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In article <1991Apr21.124135.7732@tjhsst.vak12ed.edu> kdeyoe@tjhsst.vak12ed.edu (Kelly DeYoe) writes:
|>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. . .
|>

another way is to preface the files with ./ (for current directory) followed
by their name.  that way:

rm ./-C

works fine.  Unix expects any thing following a '-' sign to be an option
to the command invoked.  It doesn't differentiate between them and file names
that happen to be the same.

|>KD

jerry
-- 
Jerry Heyman                  by day: IBM PSP, AIX Development
zebr360@emx.utexas.edu        by nite: Adjunct Lecturer at St. Edward's Univ.

*All comments are my own and should not be construed to represent any one else