Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!hector!ekrell
From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Fun with *
Message-ID: <10876@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 19 Nov 88 21:34:41 GMT
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In article <8445@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:

>If your rm command uses getopt, you can remove a file named "-f" by saying
>
>	rm -- -f

What's wrong with good old "rm ./-f" ?

This works regardless of getopt.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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