Re: Removing odd-named files

[Statux <statux bigfoot com>]

I think it was suggested to put the cwd prefix or the absolute path on the
filenames (which in effect, makes the files not look like options anymore):

rm ./--files-from

for example. use quotes too to further protect everything from the shell's
parsing.

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Saul Arias Laso wrote:

> I made some syntax mistakes while using tar and ended up creating the
> following files:
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 saul     etires        130 Sep 27 19:29 --files-from
> -rw-r--r--    1 saul     etires         45 Sep 27 19:28 --files-from=file
> -rw-r--r--    1 saul     etires         45 Sep 27 19:28 --files-from=files
>
> How do I remove them? I have tried all kinds of quoting and escaping, with
> no success.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
> Saul E. Arias Laso
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-Statux