two questions

[Hemal Pandya]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:51:09 -0400, epilogue <epilogue.allstream at net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:29:35 -0700
> Hemal Pandya <hemalpandya at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp <ms.probsd at org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm having a brain freeze tonight and apparently forgot some
> > > basic UNIX commands..
> > >
> > > what is the command to remove the file "--directory"
> > >
> > > rm *directory* = nope
> > > rm "*directory*" = nope
> > > rm \-\-\directory = nope
> > > rm -i * = nope and dosent even see the file
> > rm ./-directory
> 
> funny, though i tried these on a test directory...
> 
> rm ./-test
> rm -- --test
> 
> ...neither worked for me.  
Thats very surprising. The fist option above has worked for ever and
the second at least for a decade or so. Can you post some output?

> admittedly, both suggestions are new to me
> and i'm likely 'misreading' the statements.  
I should think so.

> anyhoo, i've always had
> success deleting directories with:
> 
> rm -r
> rm -rf   # if i'm lazy and want to save myself a 'y' and an 'enter', or
> simply don't feel like being second guessed.   :)
Neither of this would work by itself, because the file argument to rm
is not optional. What argument would you pass?

> 
> epi
> 
> >
> > >
> > > Also, if I'm in / and want to tar the entire filesystem
> > > EXCLUDING the
> > > directory jail ( /jail ) what would be the switches to tar?
> > >
> > Lookup --exclude in man tar. You want :
> > $ tar cvf file.tar --exclude jail .
> 
> 
> > > Dana
> > >
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