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From: curci@stat.uucp (Ray Curci (scri))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Keywords: HP bug
Message-ID: <7572@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 89 01:41:34 GMT
References: <570@sdrc.UUCP> <2087@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <7770@venera.isi.edu>
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In article <7770@venera.isi.edu> raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes:
>In article <2087@helios.ee.lbl.gov> JEMilburn@lbl.gov 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
>>Try rm "-ls".
>Paul Raveling
>Raveling@isi.edu

The usuall way to get rid of files that begin with '-' is to use the '-' 
flag in the 'rm' command.  To remove the file "-ls", you nomally enter
the command:            rm - -ls
The first dash acts as a place holder so that the rm program does not
misinterpret the "ls" as flags to the rm program.

curci@nu.cs.fsu.edu