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FW: how to remove a file starting with -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Soffen, Matthew)
Thu Nov 19 12:03:50 1998
From: "Soffen, Matthew" <msoffen@iso-ne.com>
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:26:15 -0500
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You could also use the ? for a wildcard match.
> ----------
> From: Gordon Messmer[SMTP:yinyang@eburg.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 6:09 PM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: how to remove a file starting with -
>
> James Baxter wrote:
> >
> > Can some one tell me how to remove a file like -letter? Even rm *
> fails
> > because the -l looks like a bad option.
> > Thanks
>
> GNU standard is to prefix non option -arguements with --
> i.e. rm -- -letter
>
> MSG
>
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