From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 23:52:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA29113 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 23:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29092 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 23:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA22340; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:50:33 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199603050750.IAA22340@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: How to delete strange filename To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:50:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, james@teamos2.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "David Kelly" at Mar 4, 96 06:46:46 pm Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > At 2:05 AM 3/4/96, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > >rm has an escape for these strange filename cases. Use: > > > >rm -- -i > > Not all rm's on all systems support that mechanism. While "rm ./-i" works > everywhere and I've often wondered why it isn't mentioned in the man page > (maybe it is, I'm writing without reading). It isn't mentioned in the FreeBSD rm page either. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ============================================================= > To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. > - Thomas Edison > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de