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- Subject: Re: [MLUG] a file named minus
- From: Brandon C <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:57:13 -0800 (PST)
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at least with rm you can use '--' to terminate the argument list and then '-' will be interpreted as a filename instead of an argument. Haven't tried it with cat or other utilities.
----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
To: MLUG membership <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 11:53:42 PM
Subject: [MLUG] a file named minus
I managed somehow to create a file named '-' (without the quotes).
Anyway, this was not easy to remove from the command line and it was even
harder to see the contents of the file. For example, this fails:
cat '-'
On Solaris, tcsh shell, this failed:
rm '-'
But that same command worked on a Linux box under tcsh.
I didn't think it was that hard to deal with a file with that name. In
the end I opened a GUI file manager on Solaris and used that to delete it.
That was pretty crazy.
Mike
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