deleting file '--preserve-permissions'

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Sat Mar 31 20:14:17 UTC 2007


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 :-)
>
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