Re: remove file with special name

[Fred Smith <fredex fcshome stoneham ma us>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 09:43:30AM +0200, 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?
> regards,

Yeah, lotsa people have trouble with this. But think of the different
ways you can refer to a file. For example, given an arbitrary file you
can refer to it by its filename, by its filename with a "./" in front of
the name (if it is in the current directory), or by its absolute
pathname "/usr/foo/bar".

So, in this case there are several ways to do it:

	rm ./-name
	rm /usr/junk/mydir/-name
	rm -- -name
	rm -i *		# then answer 'y' or 'n' for each file

Fred
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