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From: joanne@hpccc.HP.COM (Joanne Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Message-ID: <5950015@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 89 23:33:20 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard CCC
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I was just wondering....

would the command  

     rm "-ls"

work?  I used that form to get rid of a file that had a trailing blank space
at the end of the name (couldn't figure out why it kept showing up in the list
but "rm" could never find it!).....