From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 15:17:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta7-rme.xtra.co.nz (203-96-92-141.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C74237B418 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SPARLAK ([210.54.115.12]) by mta7-rme.xtra.co.nz with SMTP id <20010911015812.EOTN552138.mta7-rme.xtra.co.nz@SPARLAK> for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:58:12 +1200 Message-ID: <000901c13a65$6c984170$0500a8c0@SPARLAK> From: "Philip Murray" To: Subject: Delete a file named "-1.new.new" Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:59:42 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A file mistakenly got named like the above, however Bash, Tcsh, Csh and Sh can't seem to delete it. I've tried escaping the - and tried wildcards with "*new". I either get -1 isn't a valid option, or it can't find the file. How do I delete it? Cheers -- Philip Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message