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From: markk@sigma.UUCP (Mark Kimmerly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Keywords: rm cat mv regexp
Message-ID: <2362@sigma.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 20:14:47 GMT
References: <7170@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1614@auspex.auspex.com> <448@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
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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?

Try 'rm - -badfile'

The first '-' tells rm to treat everything that follows
as arguments, not options.
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Mark Kimmerly						markk@sigma.UUCP
Summation Inc.						1-206-823-7964