How can I remove this file ?

[David Piniella]

Erik Trulsson wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote:
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>>Hi lists
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>>  How can I delete file named prefix with "-" ?
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>If you had bothered to read the manpage for rm(1) you would already
>know that since the following paragraph appears there:
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>   The rm command uses getopt(3) to parse its arguments, which allows it to
>   accept the --' option which will cause it to stop processing flag
>   options at that point.  This will allow the removal of file names that
>   begin with a dash (-').  For example:
>         rm -- -filename
>   The same behavior can be obtained by using an absolute or relative path
>   reference.  For example:
>         rm /home/user/-filename
>         rm ./-filename
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I've never run across that.

% cd tmp
% ls
% touch -
% ls
-
% rm -
% ls
%

although if it was giving you trouble, I suppose you could do a
rm ./\-

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David Piniella
University of Miami