Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:58:19 -0400 From: Gerald A.Speak <gaspeak@va.prestige.net> To: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net>, Vinicius Vianna <ds@listas.hacked.com.br> Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to remove a dir named "--help"? Message-ID: <20010920015821.0361937B408@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010919210527.5059cbc5.matthew@starbreaker.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br> <20010919210527.5059cbc5.matthew@starbreaker.net>
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On Wednesday 19 September 2001 09:05 pm, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:34:06 -0300
>
> Vinicius Vianna <ds@listas.hacked.com.br> wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > Recently as a mistype I created a dir named "--help" as the
> > follow:
> >
> > drwxr-x--- 5 qmailq qmail 512 Sep 19 20:25 --help/
> >
> > So how can I remove this? when i type "rm -rf --help" it exits
> > quietly, i tried some glob as "*help*" and escape as "\-\-help"
> > but not worked so far, when i try to "cd" into it says:
>
> Vinicius, try typing the following: {
> rmdir "--help"
> }
>
> However, I don't understand how you could have done this. When I
> tried typing { mkdir "--help" } all I got was the short help on
> the mkdir command.
Try rmdir - --help
>
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