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From: Gerald A.Speak <gaspeak@va.prestige.net>
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To: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net>,
	Vinicius Vianna <ds@listas.hacked.com.br>
Subject: Re: How to remove a dir named "--help"?
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:58:19 -0400
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On Wednesday 19 September 2001 09:05 pm, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
> 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.

Try rmdir - --help

>
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