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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Message-ID: <1302@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 89 20:08:17 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Why not simply write a C program which uses the unlink system call to
>purge the file?

Why not write a stand-alone program to read and write disk blocks, and
patch memory, and patch the directory?  Why not take out a little bar
magnet and remagnetize the disk block containing the directory entry and
the inode?

As has been stated several times, if you want to remove a file called
"-ls" you just do

	rm -- -ls

which is one hell of a lot simpler than whacking up a C program to
unlink the file....