Can't remove or move file

Rem P Roberti remegius at comcast.net
Fri Aug 20 16:36:51 UTC 2010


>> No switch with either the rm or mv command works.  What is actually going on
>> here?
> > From the man page:
>
> NOTES
>       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
>
> -Sean
>

Yep...I just simply missed that one.  Thanks.

Rem


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