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From: stjohn@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Dave St. John)
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Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Keywords: rm cat mv regexp
Message-ID: <1233@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 16 May 89 05:14:19 GMT
References: <128@tdl.UUCP> <7170@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1614@auspex.auspex.com> <448@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: stjohn@oswego.oswego.edu.Oswego.EDU (Dave St. John)
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In article <448@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> derek@hsi86.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo) writes:
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>This doesn't work for filenames that start with a minus. eg -badfile
>Anyone know how to erase such files with whipping up a short C program?

RTM, it says to use a - for file names that begin with a -.
So you would type
    % rm - -badfile

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