[H-GEN] deleting files that start with --

David Powell (Moondrake) moondrake at aanet.com.au
Thu Mar 2 18:55:48 EST 2006


Hi All,

I just misused tar's --exclude option and now have a tar file whose name
starts with --exclude=

How can I delete this (from the CLI)?  I've tried escaping the minus
character and running rm *exclude*, but they just return an error
"unrecongised option --exclude="

I know I just read how to do this recently in linux mag, but can't find
the article...

TIA!

David




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