two questions

[Jeremy Faulkner]

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epilogue at allstream.net wrote:
| On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:37:32 -0700
| Hemal Pandya <hemalpandya at gmail.com> wrote:
|
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|>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?
|>
|
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| as requested...    (standard shell and standard user)
|
| ~> mkdir test
| ~> rm ./-test
| rm: ./-test: No such file or directory

No surprise here. You don't have a file or directory named '-test', you
have one named 'test'.

| ~> rm -- --test
| rm: --test: No such file or directory

Ditto.

| ~> rm -r test
| remove test? y
| ~> mkdir test
| ~> rm -rf test
| ~>

mkdir -- -test
rm -r -- -test


For my next trick, I will pull a rabbit out of the mailing list (hats
are over rated).
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Jeremy Faulkner				http://www.gldis.ca
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