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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:18:20 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: how to remove "-KVCD.stats"?
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:48:09 -0500, "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    due to using mkxvcd to convert avi to mpg, I sometimes generates
> "-KVCD.stas" file. How can I remove this? every time I run:
> 
> rm -f \-KVCD.stats
> 
> or
> 
> rm -f "_KVCD.stas"
> 
> it says:
> 
> rm: illegal option -- K
> usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ...
>        unlink file

Try to use "--" in order to stop argument (command line iotion)
processing:

	# rm -f -- -KVCD.stats

Nothing after "--" will be treated as an argument.



-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
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