From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 10:56:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10251 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:56:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10196 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from graphnet.com (mike.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA06936 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:55:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35AB9D42.D358E945@graphnet.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:02:43 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "q's" Subject: rmdir problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. A faulty script created a directory called "-DIR" when i try to remove it: #rmdir \-DIR or #rmdir -DIR or #rmdir \-DIR/ or #rmdir -DIR/ it always gives me this: rm: illegal option -- D etc. what can i possibly do? much tia, roman -- _________________________________________ | Roman Katsnelson | _ | Internet Engineer | _ / )| |( \ / / | Graphnet World Headquarters | \ \ _( (_ | _Teaneck, New Jersey _ | _) )_ (((\ \)| / ) http://www.graphnet.com ( \ |(/ /))) (\\\\ \|/ /___________________________________\ \|/ ////) \ / Email: romank@graphnet.com \ / \ _/ \_ / ////// ==================================== \\\\\\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message