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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Fun with *
Message-ID: <8445@alice.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 19:34:45 GMT
References: <1232@atari.UUCP> <564@comdesign.CDI.COM> <17247@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <17247@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
 
> And while you're at it, don't forget the problem of the lexicograph-
> ically first file being named "-f".

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

	rm -- -f

or even

	rm -f -- -f

The `--' is a widget that says `There are no more options after this;
everything else is an argument even if it looks like an option.'
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com