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From: rdb@osf.OSF.ORG (Ron Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Keywords: rm cat mv regexp
Message-ID: <881@osf.OSF.ORG>
Date: 16 May 89 19:25:39 GMT
References: <128@tdl.UUCP> <7170@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1614@auspex.auspex.com> <448@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1233@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
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In article <1233@oswego.Oswego.EDU> stjohn@oswego.oswego.edu.Oswego.EDU (Dave St. John) writes:
>In article <448@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> derek@hsi86.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo) writes:
>>
>>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
 
     Or else you can remove another file with -badfile on the same line:

     rm another -badfile

     will remove the files 'another' and '-badfile'.


>US Mail:	Dave St. John				

-Ron Birnbaum   rdb@osf.org