[PLUG] Moving/removing files with leading hyphen

Chris Jantzen chris at maybe.net
Wed Aug 4 12:45:03 UTC 2004


On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:40:10PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I've forgotten the wrapper for files inadvertently created with a leading
> hyphen. Slash and back-slash don't escape the wayward character. My google
> searches are not properly formed for they do not produce a result.
> 
>   How do I 'rm -filename' or 'mv -filename filename'?

Use "--" it tells GNU getopt() to stop parsing switches.

rm -- -filename

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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