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

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I just did exactly that and it worked without any problem. You sure there
were no invisible chars or anything in the file name?

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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> 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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