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From: craig@hpausla.HP.COM (Craig Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trying to remove a file called "-ls"
Message-ID: <310003@hpausla.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 89 07:16:37 GMT
References: <570@sdrc.UUCP>
Organization: HP Australian Software Operation
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Two ways:

1. Amazing as it seems, rm actually adheres to the '--' standard so as
   mentioned so many times in the above responses,

	rm -- -ls

2. If ls -i gives

	12000 -ls 	12332 .... etc

   then use

	find . -inum 12000 -exec rm {} \;