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From: Lee Cremeans <cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
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Subject: Re: How to delete strange filename
To: james@teamos2.org (James FitzGibbon)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 00:07:38 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960303220218.11059A-100000@teamos2.org> from "James FitzGibbon" at Mar 3, 96 10:04:18 pm
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> 
> Okay, stupid question here:
> 
> Somehow, I've got a file called "-i" in my home directory.  How do I 
> remove it?  Everything I've tried attempts to parse the "-i" as a 
> parameter, even with quotes (all varieties).
> 
> Is there something I can use to change the switch character, like some of 
> the DOS C library calls can ?

Go to your hoe directory, then type

rm ./-i

and that should get rid of it.  I had something similar happen to me recently!
:-)

Lee C. at school