deleting file '--preserve-permissions'

[Garrett Cooper]

Derek Ragona wrote:
> try:
> rm -i *
>
> only answer y to the one you want deleted.
>
>         -Derek
>
>
> At 02:36 PM 3/31/2007, lalev at uni-svishtov.bg wrote:
>> I've made mistake with tar. Something like
>>
>> tar cvfz --preserve-permissions home.tgz *
>>
>> or
>>
>> tar cvfz --preserve-permissions * home.tgz
>>
>> As result I have a file with name '--preserve-permissions'.
>> It seems that it's not easy to delete this file.
>>
>> rm '--preserve-permissions'
>>
>> does not give the desired result.
>> What should I do :-)
rm -- '--perserve-permissions'. -- tells getopt to stop searching and 
the single quotes are a double bonus because it doesn't interpret the 
string contents beforehand, but instead passes it on as a straight string.

Try: rm "--perserve-permissions" and rm '--perserve-permissions', in 
that order to just see what happens ;)..

-Garrett