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From: wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Message-ID: <4640015@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 89 03:20:17 GMT
References: <570@sdrc.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> >> Why not    rm -i *   and answer no to all the queries except -ls?
> >
> >Because * is expanded by the shell so the argument list passed to
> >rm might be "-i -ls foo1 foo2".
> 
> Why not simply write a C program which uses the unlink system call to
> purge the file?

This was all discussed in depth several weeks ago, but the easy ways
to do it are:

	rm ./-ls

	rm -- -ls	(or	rm - -ls	for BSD derived commands)