Re: remove file with special name

["Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" <argathin iname com>]

John H Darrah writes:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Hugo Coolens wrote:
> 
> > By incident I created a file with the name
> > -name, how can I remove this file? I tried with
> > rm \-name however this doesn't work.  Any
> > suggestion? 
> > 
> 
> Like this:
> 
> 	rm -- -name

<sigh> three correct answers - and nobody bothered to tell Hugo where to
actually *find* that answer... The answer to *that* question is - as so
often - RTFM. It's in the man page, dude! ;-)

Thomas
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