On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:14:19PM -0500, 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?
like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ touch -- --help [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r----- 1 eb eb 0 Mar 22 21:40 --help [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ rm -- --help [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ls -l total 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
