Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:30:47 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Vinicius Vianna <ds@listas.hacked.com.br> Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to remove a dir named "--help"? Message-ID: <20010920123047.A54583@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br>; from ds@listas.hacked.com.br on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:34:06PM -0300 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br>
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:34:06PM -0300, Vinicius Vianna wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> Recently as a mistype I created a dir named "--help" as the follow:
>
> drwxr-x--- 5 qmailq qmail 512 Sep 19 20:25 --help/
>
> So how can I remove this? when i type "rm -rf --help" it exits quietly, i tried some glob as "*help*" and escape as "\-\-help" but not worked so far, when i try to "cd" into it says:
Try:
rmdir ./--help
or rm -rf ./--help
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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