Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:15:00 -0500 (CDT) From: mcbrune <mcbrune@home.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: Vinicius Vianna <ds@listas.hacked.com.br>, Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to remove a dir named "--help"? Message-ID: <200109200215.f8K2F1S03650@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010920123047.A54583@itouchnz.itouch>
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If this does not work, try
rm -rf -- --help
or
ls -di --help (get the inode)
find . -inum <inum from above> -exec rm -rf {} \;
Corey
> 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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