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From: derek@hsi.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Keywords: rm cat mv regexp
Message-ID: <448@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 17:54:25 GMT
References: <128@tdl.UUCP> <7170@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1614@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: derek@hsi86.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
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Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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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?
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