Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:46:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Efren Bravo <efrenba@yahoo.es> Subject: Re: rm command problem Message-ID: <20061020164621.GA2332@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20061020123038.2dc602f3.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <20061020162119.49001.qmail@web25221.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20061020123038.2dc602f3.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 20), Bill Moran said: > In response to Efren Bravo <efrenba@yahoo.es>: > > Accidentally I've created a file called -exclude and now I cann't > > delete it. > > > > I tried with: > > > > rm -exclude and rm *exclude but it returns this: > > > > rm: illegal option -- - > > usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... > > unlink file > > > > How can I delete it? > > rm \-exclude or rm '-exclude' Actually neither of those will work :) If '-' was a wildcard character interpreted by the shell it would have, but rm is the problem here, not the shell. You need to either tell rm to ignore leading dashes as options (using the -- option): rm -- -exclude , or move the dash away from the beginning of the path: rm ./-exclude -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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