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From: dwestlan@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Westland)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Stupid question...
Message-ID: <1991May28.153437@axion.bt.co.uk>
Date: 28 May 91 14:34:37 GMT
References: <1991May27.225630.18310@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <29957@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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In article <29957@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt5223b@prism.gatech.EDU (Doug Berkland) writes:
|> Along the lines of hard to remove files... is there any way to remove
|> a file beginning with a - ?  Using \- doesn't get it... any ideas?

	A file called "-name" can be removed by the command :

rm - -name

	The first "-" tells rm to take the argument (very) literally.
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