Re: [MLUG] deleting a file named '-'

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Michael wrote:

> In bash this isn't any big deal. I do it all the time just by
> backslashing the spaces.

What do you do?  The file has the one character name -.  Just a hyphen,
what does that have to do with spaces?  This won't work:

rm \-

I tried it.  I even left tcsh and went to bash and it didn't work.  But,
like I said, this worked

rm ./-

It isn't hard in tcsh, but you have to know the trick, or think of it.  
Same for bash, I'm sure.

Mike


> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> > While I was testing a shell script and learning a few tricks, I
> > accidentally created a file called '-'.  That was it's name -- just a
> > hyphen.  That file was a nightmare to delete

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