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

[Greg Black]

On 2006-03-03, David Powell (Moondrake) wrote:

> 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="

Either of the following will do it:

    rm ./--exclude=

    rm -- --exclude=

Cheers, Greg