From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 20 16:00:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCA710656B1 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:00:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0600E8FC1A for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.12]) by qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id wdgo1e0010FhH24A9g0wPY; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:00:56 +0000 Received: from remegius.comcast.net ([67.180.204.190]) by omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id wg0u1e00J46zqiB8Ug0v2D; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:00:56 +0000 Message-ID: <4C6EA6B6.6090307@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:54 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100819 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Can't remove or move file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:00:57 -0000 This is a new one for me. I converted a YouTube selection using youtube_dl and the file that was created was named -elDeJaPWGg.flv. When I try to rename it, or delete it, I get an error message thus: root@ ~: rm -elDeJaPWGg.flv rm: illegal option -- e usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... unlink file No switch with either the rm or mv command works. What is actually going on here? Rem