Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!diblanch
From: diblanch@sdrc.UUCP (Jeff Blanchet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Summary: Solutions
Keywords: HP bug
Message-ID: <571@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 15:20:57 GMT
References: <570@sdrc.UUCP> <2087@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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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


Thanks to the replys. Of course as usual in most cases a simple solution
is the answer to my problem. In my original posting I stated that I could 
remove a file called "-ls" using "rm -i *". This works on some types of wierd
filnames but not "-ls". This occurs on all UNIX systems that I have tried it
on. I realize how it happens. Below are a few ways that I have received that
will delete the file:

    $ rm ./-ls

Probably the most obvious that I overlooked.

    $ rm -- -ls

Since the dash appears first in a seperate argument the - in the "-ls"
part is used as a filename.

    $ rm foo -ls

Adding a file that doesn't exist to be first in the list also deletes the
"-ls" file. The remove command will say the foo wasn't found but the "-ls"
file does get deleted.

Thanks to all who looked into this problem and found the above solutions.

Jeff Blanchet                UUCP:  uunet!sdrc!diblanch
SDRC
Cincinnati Ohio