Deleting a file where the first character in name is a '-'

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Knecht [mailto:mknecht at controlnet.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:33 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Deleting a file where the first character in name is a '-'
> 
> Hi all,
>     Since Rick suggested I'd been absent too long ;-) here's 
> one for the team. How do I delete this file? I'm stumped, but 
> that's easy to do.
> 
> flash Images $ ls -la
> total 388776
> -rw-r--r--   1 mark users   6920582 Apr 28 15:34 
> -weed-Onion_Jack-Fake_Moon_Landings.wma
> drwxr-xr-x   2 mark users      4096 Sep  8 14:19 .
> drwx------  70 mark users      4096 Sep  8 14:12 ..
> flash Images $
> 
> I tried quoting it, and back/forward slashing it, but I'm not 
> able to get rid of it.
> 
> thanks,
> Mark

Behold, the power of google:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2003-May/msg00613.html

:D

I could only find it because my SGI Admin classes taught me about
manipulating the inodes; somewhere in my brain I remembered that you
could delete them that way.