Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 00:42:09 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: This is the definitive answer on "pesky" files Et Fin Message-ID: <20001202004209.C3898@buffy.local> In-Reply-To: <14888.13560.811822.742841@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:32:08PM -0600 References: <119603073@toto.iv> <14888.4617.148599.530943@guru.mired.org> <20001201225640.A2189@buffy.local> <14888.13560.811822.742841@guru.mired.org>
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One common question is how to remove files whose names begin with a
`-'. GNU `rm', like every program that uses the `getopt' function to
parse its arguments, lets you use the `--' option to indicate that all
following arguments are non-options. To remove a file called `-f' in
the current directory, you could type either:
rm -- -f
or:
rm ./-f
The Unix `rm' program's use of a single `-' for this purpose
predates the development of the getopt standard syntax
(Lifted from "info rm")
Tra la la
Cliff
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