On Aug 11, Mike Miller wrote > I have a file on my machine that I created that begins with a hyphen. How > can I delete it. rm -test says can't delete est using option -t (or > whatever). How do I tell it not to use the hyphen as a switch?
With most GNU tools, '--' means "end option processing here". So "rm -- -test" will do what you want. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
