[PLUG] Deleting strange file name...

Daniel Johnson teknotus at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 19:38:26 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Stafford A. Rau <srau at rauhaus.org> wrote:
> * someone <plug_1 at robinson-west.com> [080423 23:22]:
>
> > I accidentally trying to tar one file created a file --one-file-system.
>  >
>  > How do I delete without having rm think I'm specifying an option???
>
>  The one option for doing this that is most likely to be portable across
>  different UNIX-like systems would be prepending with a "./"
>
>  In this example, you'd do the following:
>
>  rm ./--one-file-system

That would work in this example, but with the filename that starts
with a pipe it wouldn't.

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