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From: turtle@sdsu.UUCP (Andrew Scherpbier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Keywords: rm cat mv regexp
Message-ID: <3802@sdsu.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 04:38:53 GMT
References: <128@tdl.UUCP> <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:
>In article <1614@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>:Helpful Hints #1273: if you have a file name containing characters that
>:the shell assigns special significance to, put the file name in single
>:quotes when typing it as a file name:
>:
>:	% rm 'odds&ends'
>:
>
>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?

Besides being able to do this:

	rm ./-badfile

you can also do

	rm -- -badfile


--Andrew "Race Turtle" Scherpbier