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From: troyb@hpdml93.HP.COM (Troy Bergstrand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Message-ID: <720004@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 89 21:55:33 GMT
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Organization: HP Disk Memory Division - Boise, ID
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I'm late into this conversation, so forgive me if I'm duplicating someone
else's reply.  To get rid of a file with a leading minus sign is best done
using a pathname (either the whole path or at least ./) 

e.g.     rm ./-ls