From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 19 17:31:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F1637B405 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc by itouch.co.nz with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15jrjr-000EIx-00; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:30:47 +1200 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:30:47 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Vinicius Vianna Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to remove a dir named "--help"? Message-ID: <20010920123047.A54583@itouchnz.itouch> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message