[H-GEN] Shell usage...

Mark Suter mark at zwitterion.humbug.org.au
Sun Aug 23 04:49:29 EDT 1998


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On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Daehenoc wrote:

> Hello everybody - i've screwed up whilst using ftp and created a file that
> starts with a '-' symbol - how do you kill this file in the shell?

First of all, make sure that that is the file's name, and then delete it
using the standard option are finished switch, double hyphen.

    $ /bin/ls -l | /bin/cat -e
    total 0$
    -rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Aug 23 18:47 -$
    $ /bin/rm -- -
    $ /bin/ls -l | /bin/cat -e
    total 0$
    $ 

Yours sincerely,

- -- Mark John Suter | I know that you  believe  you understand
suter at humbug.org.au  | what you think I said, but I am not sure
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