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Re: how to remove a file starting with -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Thu Nov 19 16:28:32 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:23:00 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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Win Htin wrote:
>
> *nix 101. How about if the file name is something like !aaa or $aaa ;-)
>
I believe that those characters are interpreted by the shell and not
by the rm command. Under these circumstances, it would be proper to
escape the characters ! or $ with a \ character, like:
rm \!aaa
or to enclose the filename in single quotes:
rm '!aaa'
MSG
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