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From: miquels@htsa.htsa.aha.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Re: Stupid question...
Message-ID: <115@htsa.htsa.aha.nl>
Date: 30 May 91 13:55:32 GMT
References: <1991May27.225630.18310@watdragon.waterloo.edu%> <29957@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991May28.153437@axion.bt.co.uk>
Organization: Polytechnical Institute AHA-TMF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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In article <1991May28.153437@axion.bt.co.uk%> dwestlan@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Westland) writes:
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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.
%>          |              DAVID WESTLAND                           |
%>          | Email     :  dwestlan@axion.bt.co.uk                  |

      AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

rm ./-name !!!!

Miquel.
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