On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 03:40:41PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > Apparently about an hour ago something made a few files in my homedir > that began with "-", and now I can't read them and can't remove them: > > 15:30 ~ $ ls > total 80 > -rw------- 1 alphengl alphengl 226 Oct 10 14:30 -011405 > -rw------- 1 alphengl alphengl 226 Oct 10 14:33 -011485 > -rw------- 1 alphengl alphengl 226 Oct 10 14:42 -011611
# cat -- -011405 [...] #rm -- -011405 The "--" tells the program that everything else after it is not an option, but a normal argument. I have no idea what they are though. Ben
