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From: tbm@cbnews.ATT.COM (thomas.b.merrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Problem removing a file
Message-ID: <3736@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 89 13:14:31 GMT
References: <695@flatline.UUCP> <589@icus.islp.ny.us> <791@pedsga.UUCP>
Reply-To: tbm@cbnews.ATT.COM (thomas.b.merrick)
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In article <791@pedsga.UUCP> jeffj@pedsga.UUCP (Jeff Jonas,TF,7) writes:
>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
>|>rm: illegal option -- e
>|>usage: rm [-fir] file ...
>

Well, the easiest trick is like ::

      rm ./-ef

Works every time, even if rm does not understand "--".

Tom Merrick ATT BTL  Ward Hill MA    att!mvuxd!tbm