From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 19:53:53 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 566A416A410 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:53:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0898813C48A for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:53:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-10-135.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.10.135]:50632 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HXje3-0004FH-5u for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:53:52 +0200 Received: (qmail 10501 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2007 21:53:43 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 31 Mar 2007 21:53:43 +0200 Received: (qmail 12168 invoked by uid 1001); 31 Mar 2007 21:53:43 +0200 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:53:42 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: lalev@uni-svishtov.bg Message-ID: <20070331195342.GA12117@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: lalev@uni-svishtov.bg, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1794.212.25.54.147.1175369763.squirrel@mail.uni-svishtov.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1794.212.25.54.147.1175369763.squirrel@mail.uni-svishtov.bg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HXje3-0004FH-5u. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HXje3-0004FH-5u 40fe5f1ba35096b63296c26e34205bdf Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 19:53:53 -0000 On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:36:03PM +0300, lalev@uni-svishtov.bg wrote: > 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 :-) You should read the rm(1) man-page. Especially the part that says: NOTE The rm command uses getopt(3) to parse its arguments, which allows it to accept the --' option which will cause it to stop processing flag options at that point. This will allow the removal of file names that begin with a dash (-'). For example: rm -- -filename The same behavior can be obtained by using an absolute or relative path reference. For example: rm /home/user/-filename rm ./-filename -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se