Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:05:27 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net> To: Vinicius Vianna <ds@listas.hacked.com.br> Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to remove a dir named "--help"? Message-ID: <20010919210527.5059cbc5.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br>
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:34:06 -0300
Vinicius Vianna <ds@listas.hacked.com.br> 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:
Vinicius, try typing the following: {
rmdir "--help"
}
However, I don't understand how you could have done this. When I
tried typing { mkdir "--help" } all I got was the short help on
the mkdir command.
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