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

[Rick Stevens]

csieh wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> 
>>csieh wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>-----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 $
>>>
>>>
>>>rm ./-weed-Onion_Jack-Fake_Moon_Landings.wma
>>>
>>>You just need to make the file not start with a - and using ./ does that.
>>
>>Actually, the best way is the "--" option.  This works on most basic
>>commands (cp, rm, mv, ls, etc.).  "--" is a special flag that says "this
>>is the end of the options...the remainder are parameters".
> 
> 
> 
> But not all versions of cp,rm,mv,ls have the -- option.

Most _current_ ones do--especially if they're based on later versions
of getopt(3).  The "-?", "--help" or man page may not explicitly state
it, but getopt(3) has supported that since, oh, 1998 or so.
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