-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You can also try rm '-gzip' the ' are single quotes - --Warren
On Monday 05 February 2001 16:45, Erik Steffl wrote: > cls/cs wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar > > > archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. > > > > > > Unfortunately I used the following line: > > > > > > tar -cvvf -gzip /mod/name-of-archive folder-name > > > > > > Now my home-partition is 100 % full and I don´t know how to delete that > > > -gzip file! :-( > > > Gee, why doesn´t tar realize that things starting with "-" are no file > > > names. > > > > > > I tried > > > rm "-gzip" > > > rm ´-gzip´ > > > rm \-gzip > > > > > > None of these worked. > > > > > > What is the trick? (There must be one ...) > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Kerstin > > > > ...guessing here, but if you > > > > mv -gzip foo (foo being some other name not beginning with "-") > > > > and then > > > > rm foo > > > > does that work? > > > > bentley taylor. > > > > ps. i'm too chicken to replicate a -foo file. > > two ways: > > rm ./-gzip > rm -- -gzip > > the first one should work everywhere, the second one works with gnu > rm, I think, not sure though. > > erik - -- I don't have some cute little signature. Deal with it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqBDYQACgkQEMmUMjlf2iyzggCeLWFIE6XwOD7wDhMYICNQl+7n ddoAn0Htk3LKRX42lB/VAQnKUicD5qth =NHNQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
