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From: nick@hp-sdd.hp.com (Nick Flor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Keywords: HP bug
Message-ID: <1818@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Date: 12 Mar 89 05:33:54 GMT
References: <570@sdrc.UUCP>
Sender: news@hp-sdd.hp.com
Reply-To: nick@hp-sdd.hp.com.UUCP (Nick Flor)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
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In article <570@sdrc.UUCP> diblanch@sdrc.UUCP (Jeff Blanchet) writes:
>
>Anyway I have found one way to get rid of a file with this type of name.
>"find . -name "-ls" -exec rm {} \;" got rid of the file.
>
>Pretty interesting!!! Anyone else know of a way to delete such a file?
>

Yes.  The  problem, of course, is that the shell is trying to  interpret
the file name as command line options.  So, just do something to make it
realize that it's actually the file name.

Try 'rm  ../(current  directory  name)/-ls'.  You don't need the  single
quotes.  If it's on your top level  directory  you can type "rm  ~/-ls".
Or just type in the full path name.

Nick
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