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From: jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Bob Jewett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Message-ID: <63300004@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 89 21:28:55 GMT
References: <1818@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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> 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.

The standard way of terminating options is to use the option "--", so to
remove a file named "-ls" you could type "rm -i -- -ls".  Note that this
works for commands that adhere to the getopts standards even for arguments
which are not files, and therefore cannot be referred to like "./-ls".

Bob