From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 3:21:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AFDA37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 03:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13077 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2000 11:21:27 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 1 Dec 2000 11:21:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 25935 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2000 11:21:27 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 1 Dec 2000 11:21:27 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:20:11 -0000 Message-ID: <886CA0C095C5D411B95400508B6F7412866019@ukcamexch4.cam.uk.internal> From: Daniel Bye To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Pesky file Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:19:35 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, Here's a question for a Friday morning... Somehow, I have ended up with a file named -help in my home directory. How can I get rid of it? It is 0 bytes, and if I try to rm, mv, unlink it etc, the shell interprets the file name as an argument to the program and spews forth errors. Backslash escaping it doesn't work, and neither does quoting it. Is there any way to remove it by using the inode number?? It's not a huge problem, but it is annoying that I can't figure out how to do it! TIA for any insights/solutions. Dan Bye _______________________________ UUNET UK FM Server Support Engineer Internet House 332 Science Park Milton Road Cambridge CB4 0BZ Tel: 01223 250 122 E-mail: servers@support.uk.uu.net A WorldCom Company. ============================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message