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From: dpw@lemuria.usi.com (Darryl P. Wagoner)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Problem removing a file
Message-ID: <1207@lemuria.usi.com>
Date: 4 Feb 89 11:32:46 GMT
References: <695@flatline.UUCP> <589@icus.islp.ny.us>
Reply-To: dpw@lemuria.uucp (Darryl P. Wagoner)
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In article <589@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) 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
}|>
}|>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


Also you can do a rm ./-ef.  That will kept the - from being picked up 
as an option.-- 
Darryl Wagoner		(home) dpw@lemuria.uucp or wagoner@imokay.dec.com
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