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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.

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