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From: rdg@hpfcmr.HP.COM (Rob Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Message-ID: <1080040@hpfcmr.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 89 19:41:06 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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Also:
  rm -ir .
  rm -- -ls
  rm ./-ls
  rm foo -ls
  /etc/unlink -ls  # as root
etc, etc.

Related stuff: how to remove a file with control characters, 
like "foovbar" but with a backspace embedded in it? 

 echo "rm foov\010bar" | sh

And there's always "ls | od -c" or "od -c ." to find out exactly
what's in the filename anyway.

Of course, you can write a C program to do any of this trivially:

main()
{
    char foo[14];

    foo[0] = 'f';
    foo[1] = 'o';
/* etc */
    foo[10] = '\0';
    unlink(foo);
}


raab