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From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Problem removing a file
Message-ID: <589@icus.islp.ny.us>
Date: 30 Jan 89 05:49:59 GMT
References: <695@flatline.UUCP>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
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In article <695@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
|>
|>Ok, I've really done it now.  I've created, in my home directory,
|>a file by the name of:
|>-ef
|>
|>None of the following rm options work: *f, *ef, -*f, -i *
|>
|>The error returned?
|>
|>rm: illegal option -- e
|>usage: rm [-fir] file ...
|>
|>Any hints/suggestions?

Yeah, I do ... :-)

Rename the file with "mv(1)", since that doesn't have any argument switches,
it won't complain about the "-ef", then remove it.

$ mv -ef junk
$ rm junk

-Lenny
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