From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 19:36:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DF216A402 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:36:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lalev@uni-svishtov.bg) Received: from ns.uni-svishtov.bg (ns2.uni-svishtov.bg [195.20.24.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DDC13C4B8 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:36:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lalev@uni-svishtov.bg) Received: from mail.uni-svishtov.bg (grinch.uni-svishtov.bg [195.20.24.9]) by ns.uni-svishtov.bg (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l2VJalMV056707 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:36:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from lalev@uni-svishtov.bg) Received: from mail.uni-svishtov.bg (localhost.uni-svishtov.bg [127.0.0.1]) by mail.uni-svishtov.bg (8.13.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id l2VJa3RB052873 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:36:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from lalev@uni-svishtov.bg) Received: from 212.25.54.147 (SquirrelMail authenticated user lalev) by mail.uni-svishtov.bg with HTTP; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:36:03 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <1794.212.25.54.147.1175369763.squirrel@mail.uni-svishtov.bg> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:36:03 +0300 (EEST) From: lalev@uni-svishtov.bg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on mail.uni-svishtov.bg Subject: deleting file '--preserve-permissions' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:36:48 -0000 I've made mistake with tar. Something like tar cvfz --preserve-permissions home.tgz * or tar cvfz --preserve-permissions * home.tgz As result I have a file with name '--preserve-permissions'. It seems that it's not easy to delete this file. rm '--preserve-permissions' does not give the desired result. What should I do :-)