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

[csieh]

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.


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