Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:24:50 -0400 From: epilogue@allstream.net To: Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two questions Message-ID: <20040625012450.1610c7a4@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040625045946.GA40925@shark.localdomain> References: <1793.192.168.1.1.1088132789.squirrel@192.168.1.1> <50be591b04062420296611a8d5@mail.gmail.com> <20040624235109.75b3399b@localhost> <20040625045946.GA40925@shark.localdomain>
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:59:46 +0400 Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru> wrote: > 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: > > > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp > > > <ms.probsd@org> wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm having a brain freeze tonight and apparently forgot some > > > > basic UNIX commands.. > > > > > > > > what is the command to remove the file "--directory" > > > > > > > > rm *directory* = nope > > > > rm "*directory*" = nope > > > > rm \-\-\directory = nope > > > > rm -i * = nope and dosent even see the file > > > rm ./-directory > > > > funny, though i tried these on a test directory... > > > > rm ./-test > > rm -- --test > > > > You're missing the -r: > > $ rm -r -- --test actually, *i* suggested using -r. what i don't get is the dashes. it works just fine without. ...at least for me. please see my last message. > > should work. > > -- > DoubleF > The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to > chance. >
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