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From: mostek@motcid.UUCP (Frank B. Mostek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Unix problem
Message-ID: <6238@beryl12.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 91 19:01:41 GMT
References: <14425@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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wangjw@cs.purdue.EDU (Jingwen Wang) writes:

>  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? 

Use the find command:
                                                    
find . -name "-C" -exec rm -f {} \;

I am not sure why this works and
rm -f "-C" does not work.

Any insights?
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