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From: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Message-ID: <2089@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 11 Mar 89 10:42:49 GMT
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Reply-To: leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
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John Milburn writes:
>In article <570@sdrc.UUCP> diblanch@sdrc.UUCP (Jeff Blanchet) writes:
>>I seem to have stumbled across a bug that occurs on the HP. I created a file
>>called "-ls". Now on any other UNIX system all I have to do is issue the
>
>Try rm "-ls".

This may work under hpux, but it doesn't under Berkeley Unix. My
favorate way to remove a file with a leading dash is:

	% rm foo -ls

It doesn't matter if foo exists or not; once it sees an argument that
doesn't have a leading dash, it stops looking.

		Craig