On 23-Mar-2000 Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? > (Don't ask...Okay if you really must know, I typed in tgz --help and I > get that file. There's no man page for tgz, and I think tgz shouldn't > accept things starting with -- as file names...) rm always takes it > as an option, even if quotes, double-quoted, backslashed, > regular-expressioned. Any suggestions? > > Marshal
try 'rm -- --help.tgz' (no quotes) -- Andrew