Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:18:12 -0400 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> To: epilogue@allstream.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two questions Message-ID: <40DBC3A4.6060608@gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040625012205.75fac6ab@localhost> References: <1793.192.168.1.1.1088132789.squirrel@192.168.1.1> <20040624235109.75b3399b@localhost> <50be591b04062421371516e6dc@mail.gmail.com> <20040625012205.75fac6ab@localhost>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 epilogue@allstream.net wrote: | On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:37:32 -0700 | Hemal Pandya <hemalpandya@gmail.com> wrote: | | |>On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:51:09 -0400, epilogue <epilogue.allstream@net> |>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 |>> |>>...neither worked for me. |> |>Thats very surprising. The fist option above has worked for ever and |>the second at least for a decade or so. Can you post some output? |> | | | as requested... (standard shell and standard user) | | ~> mkdir test | ~> rm ./-test | rm: ./-test: No such file or directory No surprise here. You don't have a file or directory named '-test', you have one named 'test'. | ~> rm -- --test | rm: --test: No such file or directory Ditto. | ~> rm -r test | remove test? y | ~> mkdir test | ~> rm -rf test | ~> mkdir -- -test rm -r -- -test For my next trick, I will pull a rabbit out of the mailing list (hats are over rated). - -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA28Ojfb0Lle2MIEIRAj07AJ9o1fd6h/hhicObseb5JHoI0FtrjwCgwpRn RbnHzPzw4iNG/+e0wHR5Q3s= =U72R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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