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From: jws@hpcljws.HP.COM (John Stafford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re: Ugly File Name (Correction)
Message-ID: <720007@hpcljws.HP.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 22:16:06 GMT
References: <3330@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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Another vote for an "often asked questions" document...

To remove a file that begins with - in the current directory (say
-whatever for example)

   rm ./-whatever

should always be good, for that matter you could get verbose and say
from anywhere (as appropriate)

   rm /place/otherplace/somewhere/here/-whatever

in many places

   rm -- -whatever

works and

   rm - -whatever

is rumored to work some places, but I've never used a system where it
did (or at least was documented to).