Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:59:46 +0400 From: Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru> To: epilogue@allstream.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two questions Message-ID: <20040625045946.GA40925@shark.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20040624235109.75b3399b@localhost> References: <1793.192.168.1.1.1088132789.squirrel@192.168.1.1> <50be591b04062420296611a8d5@mail.gmail.com> <20040624235109.75b3399b@localhost>
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--GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:51:09PM -0400, epilogue@allstream.net probably wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:29:35 -0700 > Hemal Pandya <hemalpandya@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp <ms.probsd@org> > > wrote: > > >=20 > > > I'm having a brain freeze tonight and apparently forgot some > > > basic UNIX commands.. > > >=20 > > > what is the command to remove the file "--directory" > > >=20 > > > rm *directory* =3D nope > > > rm "*directory*" =3D nope > > > rm \-\-\directory =3D nope > > > rm -i * =3D nope and dosent even see the file > > rm ./-directory >=20 > funny, though i tried these on a test directory... >=20 > rm ./-test > rm -- --test >=20 You're missing the -r: $ rm -r -- --test should work. --=20 DoubleF The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA27FBwo7hT/9lVdwRAkZAAJ478eKyHI7LwHFZs0sUM5CkfYkGCgCbB9dP hDSI7EOOW6qgY4VYiYTGUYI= =7Po/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw--
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