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Re: RM command - bug report
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: RM command - bug report |
Date: |
05 Jun 2002 18:22:21 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
* Vincent Angeloni writes:
> I've got a file named "-------Message".
> When i want to remove this file with the rm command like this : rm
> -------Message or rm "-------Message" or rm '-------Message'
> or rm \-\-\-\-\-\-\-Message
> the command failed cause it thinks that -------Message is an option !
> Could you tell me how i can remove this file ?
>From the info page for rm:
One common question is how to remove files whose names begin with a
`-'. GNU `rm', like every program that uses the `getopt' function to
parse its arguments, lets you use the `--' option to indicate that all
following arguments are non-options. To remove a file called `-f' in
the current directory, you could type either:
rm -- -f
or:
rm ./-f
Cheers,
--
Alfred M. Szmidt